WRITING: Nothing is ever truly done…

WRITING: Nothing is ever truly done…

Posted inRandom Musings, Writing
... even when it's already in print. Over two years ago I did a series of posts called How I Got Published outlining the start-to-finish of how Jim McDevitt and I conceived of, wrote, and ultimately sold A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense. My hope was that those posts would help other writers understand what they might look forward to when their time comes. Consider this a follow-up on that series of posts. Readers of this blog may recall that not too long ago, I announced that A Year of Hitchcock is coming to paperback.…

Husbandly news in the, errr … news

Posted inRandom Musings, Writing
Here is a little piece about the ol' Husband book that appeared in today's Birmingham News. Check it out. Heck, ReTweet it, too. In more exciting news, I'm just days away from wrapping up final edits on the first draft of a science fiction novel. It's an action-packed story set in a dystopian America of the near future. I still have a long way to go on it but hope to be feverishly writing the next draft by Memorial Day.
Stuff Every Husband Should Know

Say, that’s a really good line!

Posted inRandom Musings, Uncategorized, Writing
I'm paging through a copy of Stuff Every Husband Should Know that landed on my desk here at the office, just to see what I think of the book now that a year has passed since I wrote it, and made myself laugh with this line from the chapter What Happens in the Delivery Room: You might cry. It's OK. Men cry, sometimes about things other than the World Series. This is as good a time as any. That's funny. I'm allowed to say it's funny, right? Because I think it's funny.

Pay it forward

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I don't normally use my blog for this sort of thing but felt like this was something I wanted to share: A little real life story about doing good things for other people. The story has been kicking around for a while now -- in fact, this blog post was written back in December, I just never got around to pushing it live -- but if you haven't yet read it, I urge you to. It's one of those beautiful real life stories that give you some faith in the inherent good in people.

Happy Birthday to my coauthor, Jim McDevitt

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When Jim McDevitt and I started writing about the works of Alfred Hitchcock way back in 2006, yeah, we talked about it becoming a book and people reading it and all the usual daydreaming. I'm not sure we imagined it would actually happen, though, or that it would do well enough to earn a paperback edition, or that we'd do 50 something episodes of a podcast based on the book, and that the podcast would get many hundreds of listeners, or a host of other things. But we did. Two beer-drinking baseball fans decided to do something silly like write…