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Do you know the joke about the elephant? How do you eat an elephant? Answer; one bite at a time. Earlier today I was feeling as if I were standing in the middle of an entire herd [...]

I don’t get writer’s block, it’s a failure of confidence and that’s not my gig, but I do have moments when the words don’t come, when the negative [...]

I’ve run into several women lately, and a few articles, that make me feel like sharing some of my dating strategy. What are my credentials for this advice? I’ve been [...]

There was a herpetology show today. Pili, Carri’s wife, and I went. Carri told her not to buy anything for them, but only for work. I went along to make certain of that, and [...]

How to have your cake and stay on your nutrition plan, too. First have small piece of desert. Small means anything wider than two inches is a no-no. Second enjoy eating it, no [...]

I have no pages to show for today, or none that I’m keeping. I got very impatient with myself about it. I started to really beat myself up, then I thought well there is the [...]

We just spent four hours in the emergency room with Carri, my assistant and good friend, and her wife, Pili. Carri left work here and headed for home about twenty minutes later [...]

Several of you have written in about my Entertainment Weekly interview. You’ve said that I disrespected Anne Rice by saying that I pioneered my genre, not hers. I [...]

Left Jon tucked into bed. We made the mistake of turning off a DVD but not the television and got caught up in the movie, "Apooloosa" based on a Robert B. Parker book. [...]

So many of you ask me how to be a published writer, and I’m sort of stumped, because every writer I know well does it differently. We are very individualistic creatures, we [...]