

What does hunger really look like in WNC?
I know there are hungry people in our community. I see it in the faces of dozens of people who crowd into the food pantry where I serve...

Every ending is another beginning
I came up here to this mountaintop overlook months ago when I was struggling with how to begin my first novel. I wasn't sure what to do....

I thought about giving up. Now, I'm almost done.
I have a few chapters left to write. I'm almost done with the first write-through of my first novel! The finish line is in sight! And now...

Does the ocean know I killed it off?
The sea looked sullen to me when I left Myrtle Beach in January. Its waves rose and fell a little slower than normal, under a veil of...

No one was harmed in the writing of this chapter.
I’ve worked on this novel in interesting places over the last few months: on mountaintops, on the beach, in parks, on the shore of a...

My Story is Fiction. His is Real.
When I said I was taking time off from journalism to write a book, most of my friends asked if it would be a true crime book. It makes...

A Novel Idea
What if your life started just as the world was ending? What if you were sent to a disintegrating earth for a reason - a specific mission...









