G reetings, or should I say, Avast! The Treasure Hunt has been a great success. Thanks for all the great Door Within & Isle of Swords pr...

Through high school and college, one of my summer jobs was working at a "Pick-Your-Own" Strawberry farm. During the picking season...

Rejection A fan wrote me the other day asking for advice that I might give to give to an aspiring writer who has a burning desire to write, ...

Okay, I'm stoked! I just found the Prince Caspian Movie Trailer. WOW. Can't wait. You can check it out here: PRINCE CASPIAN MOVIE TR...

Middle Earth, Gandalf, Lothlorien, The Dragonbone Chair, Paragor, Morgoth--incredibly cool fantasy names. Lots of folks ask me where I get t...

This righteous portrait come to us from Dee Fowler. What a powerful image. So many different emotions in her expression--subtle, but definit...

National news. Front page headlines. Sean Taylor, Redskins All-Pro Safety, Gunned Down in his Florida Home. Dead at the age of 24. I'm a...

Today is Day One of the CSFF Blog Tour for Mr. Stephen Lawhead newest book: Scarlet Most readers of fantasy know of Mr. Lawhead's ground...

Two Points in this post: 1. The first is an excuse for not posting for a week or so. My edits have just come back for Isle of Fire. So far t...

This righteous image brought to you by Sir Jared of Harrison. Bravisimo, Jared! Okay, who knows what this piece of artwork depicts? ;-)

Ahhhhh , the turkey is done. Delicious, I must say. My mom makes this spectacular stuffing with sausage and walnuts in it--YUM! {Ducks as sh...

I'm not even sure how she got my contact information. But about a year ago, I got an email from Brenda McManus, Head of Media Services a...

I've just heard from my contact at Corner of the Sky Entertainment. It looks like The Door Within Trilogy is not their idea of movie mat...

You probably thought I forgot about the Suspense Techniques Contest! Nope. I was just snowed under by a deadline. But now that I am up and b...

Getting ready to teach a poetry introduction to my English classes, I delved into my digital file folders and found a bunch of poems I wrote...

Had a great signing at the Borders Bookstore at the Woodlands (Just outside of Houston) here in Texas. And as the saying goes, they do thing...

I'm in Houston now. Very nice accommodations here at the Hotel Indigo. I feel more like I'm in the Caribbean than in Texas---not a b...

Well, I'm off to Houston, Tx. tomorrow. Never been to Houston. 2nd Baptist Church School has invited me to come down and present Door Wi...

A subtitle to this post should be: "And How Not to Get from JFK International Airport to Downtown NYC." You would not believe the ...

I just sent the manuscript of Isle of Fire off to my publishers. I cannot tell you what a magnificent feeling of exhilaration that was. The...