That is the thing about ghosts. We do not really want them to be real. We want the delicious few seconds of thinking they might be, the safe little scare we can laugh about over breakfast. A creaking old hotel is the most harmless fright there is, which may be exactly why we go looking for it.

What happened to others at the Lord Milner is a story about a story in my book, Barking at Dogs. But if you have ever lain rigid in the dark, certain you were being visited and equally certain you did not believe in visitors, you already know how it felt.

I expect a parade every time I hit publish, then feel wounded when it is quiet. Funny thing is, I scroll past everyone else without a second thought. An honest look at that double standard.

Every so often someone asks how the book is coming along, in the careful voice you save for a friend who has been talking about the same project for a suspiciously long time. So here is an honest update. Barking at Dogs is on track for 30 September 2026, and that date is no longer negotiable, largely because Leora keeps a spreadsheet and the spreadsheet has opinions.

The writing is finished. The cover is done, the interior is typeset, and I am reading proofs and hunting for the one stray comma that always survives. The ebook lands in early August, with advance copies close behind.

Life’s a bitch. What are you going to do about it?

Lion dung, toast, and a naked communist on the church steps. Barking at Dogs is coming, 16 September 2026. Here's where things stand.

Let us not underestimate the power of librarians as defenders of intellectual freedom and guides in a world suffering information overload.

My new short story will be published in October.

The Goon Show was a collection of wonderfully silly characters from the mind of a man who suffered from PTSD and a variety of other mental illnesses.

Do you take advice at face value, or forge ahead on your own path to writing fame and fortune. I have some thoughts.

While the print version of Barking at Dogs is still years off, one of the short stories from the collection features in the upcoming San Diego Writers and Editors Guild Anthology titled Strange Happenings.

I am often asked who I think of when I am writing my YA novel. I would love to say that I write purely for myself or that I visualize an amorphous young adult audience.