Five years ago this month, I released This Wasted Land, a modern-day young adult dark fantasy/ horror novel. And though I have much love for Lost Dogs (the book that came before) and Stray Cats (the book that came after), I still insist that TWL is my best work. How Continue reading 5 reasons why “this wasted land” is my best book
This Wasted Land, my third published novel, was released a year ago. As I mentioned in this post, it was in 1988, when I was a senior in college, that I first began working on what would become TWL. I developed the premise, created some characters, and did extensive research, Continue reading a great “wasted” year
On November 26, 2018, I launched my third published novel, and my fourth published book. This Wasted Land is not your typical teenage-love story. No, it’s more like: Boy meets Girl Evil Witch takes Boy Girl goes to get Boy back Though TWL just came out this year, its genesis Continue reading how it took me 30 years to get “wasted”
The latest in a series about influences from my earlier days My favorite poem—which I was introduced to back in college—is also one of the most difficult: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. It’s long (over 400 lines), so I won’t quote it all, but as it’s in the public domain, Continue reading when the world was young: “the waste land”
