This past month, the book cover design brief has monopolized my time. After sorting through 3,500 Amazon book covers with dragons, I found five that feel like my book. These will inform my designer of what I like. Which takes us to the next step. For the MiniBuk...

I was wondering. Do you have plans for the summer? You’ve likely been asked two dozen times. My days will be divided between two things. Mostly. Writing and yarding. Is that a word? Although the End-of-School-Year craze consumed May, I completed the fourth Oracle of...

“If you don’t like the weather, wait a day.” That’s a common saying here in Virginia. Which is why, if you passed my house Easter evening, you would’ve seen a grape arbor transformed into a tent. We had a freeze warning. Temperatures fluctuate in April. But the 80...