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• Wicked Run Press and The Myth of Self-Publishing

  

  Raising two kids rather than one is said to be easier at times, for the two can play with each. Writing two blogs at the same time, however, is not so fun, for... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• Love/Hate Relationships With My Work-In-Progress. Fear the Walking Dead. The...

  When I wrote MILK-BLOOD, there was a period of about 5 weeks that I was going to delete it from my hard-drive. I hated that I even started it and cursed myself... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• The Reported Death of the Paperback Has Been Largely Exaggerated

  

  Stop the digital presses.According to this this recent New York Times article, the reported death of print books has been largely exaggerated. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• A Marathon Horror Story I Will Never Write

  

  While vacationing in Northern Michigan this summer, I went walking along country roads I used to run for miles on end, only now I couldn't run them. I had to... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• "Redemption Isn't My Thing" An Interview With Jon Bassoff

  

  "What realy knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• I Have No Legs, And I Must Run

  

  The novel Once A Runner is perhaps the Godfather of all running fiction. No book I've read has captured the spiritual yet visceral nature of pounding the... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• El Chapo Escapes Prison, Captured and Held as Fodder. (and I Know Where He Is)

  

  El Chapo is a mastermind. A drug cartel superman moving mounds and mounds of crystal meth and other mind-altering Mexican grown products to your backyard,... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• Disintegration by Richard Thomas.

  

  After seeing the fantastic movie Mad Max: Fury Road, I found myself slightly depressed. It was such an onslaught of the senses, that all other media seemed... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• Elder Island, Pure Horror, and the Fate of the Michigan Film Industry

  

  I had the incredible opportunity to visit the set of a Horror Movie last week. On the last night of shooting, I was invited out to Howell, Michigan to hang out... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• MILK-BLOOD is a Semi-Finalist for the Best Kindle Book Awards

  

  Thrilled to announce that MILK-BLOOD has been chosen as a semi-finalist in the Horror/Suspense category of the Best Kindle Book Awards. The awards honor small... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• Three Things. Just Three Things

  

  1. First off: I took the word Running out of the blog title. It seemed like false advertising since I hadn't run a step since last October, and I currently don'... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• Post Mad Max Fury Road Syndrome

  

  I've fallen on some dark days of late. But now I have a new affliction: Post Mad Max Fury Road Syndrome It's what happens when you get you senses bombarded. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• San Diego Rock n Roll Marathon and Saturday Shake-Out Runs

  

  If you've ever ran a marathon, you know all the anxiety, fear, and trepidation that precedes the actual morning of the event. When the only thing that is... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• My Picture On A Bucket List

  

  I was on the verge of scrubbing this blog of everything running related. I had plans to burn all my shoes, euthanize my running self, and then urinate on the... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• A Recipe For Dark Fiction (or How I Learned to Limp)

  A recipe for dark fiction.Take a flawed character. Demonstrate in an opening scene something that is near and dear to them. Take that something away, or make... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• The Story of My Herniated Disc

  

  You know this story doesn't end well.Three weeks ago, I joined an over 40 hockey league. I was looking for the exhilaration, excitement, and buzz of warm blood... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• Ahoy! Book Pirates

  

  "If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• Oh the Good Old Hockey Game

  

  "oh the good old hockey game, is the best game you can name.And the best game you can name, is the good old hockey game."It's hockey playoff season, and a most... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• What I'm Writing, Reading, Running, and Watching

  

  WRITINGI have written a couple hundred thousand words since MILK-BLOOD was released last June.The problem is, of these 200k words, they are spread out among... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS

• Star of Little Orphan Annie To Play the Role of Lilly in Movie Version of...

  

  I am ecstatic to announce that starting this summer, the movie version of MILK-BLOOD will begin filming on location on the East side of Detroit. Right on... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 FITNESS, HEALTHY LIVING, SPORTS