Author Archive

More recent book highlights

One of my favorite things as an author is seeing the books pop up in new places, and seeing that people enjoy them. I try to round up some highlights every so often, and here are a few recent ones. Build Your Library, a great resource for quality secular home schooling, recommended Civic Minded as […]

Rockin’ the Boat has a new Korean edition

I spent the last couple weeks in California, attending the annual AWP conference in Los Angeles and then taking a short vacation. Got back to find a copy of the new Korean edition of my book Rockin’ the Boat: 50 Iconic Revolutionaries from Joan of Arc to Malcolm X. It looks really different than the […]

Animal Husbandry audiobook out now

The audiobook for my short-story collection Animal Husbandry is out now. It’s read by Sebastian Brown, and includes the full book. It’s available from Audible and elsewhere already, and the paperback and ebook editions are still available wherever you buy books. If you enjoyed it, reviews on Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere are […]

More praise for multiple books

One nice thing about books is even though they’re not technically new releases anymore, they’re still getting some good recognition. That includes my three new books, Animal Husbandry, Civic Minded, and Votes of Confidence, as well as my climate change book A Hot Mess and history book Rockin’ the Boat. They’re available in multiple formats […]

“Uncle Joe’s Still” appears in Straylight

Straylight literary magazine published my short story “Sealing Wax” last year, and now it’s followed up by including “Uncle Joe’s Still” in its Fall 2024 issue. An excerpt: My Uncle Joe used to say on the regular that a copy of a copy always lost something in the translation, and that a copy of that […]

“The Dead Squirrel” is also a podcast episode

A few weeks ago, the new Rituals issue of Zoetic Press Nonbinary Review came out, and it featured my short story “The Dead Squirrel,” about my dog’s first experience with death. That story is also now out in podcast form as part of the magazine’s Alphanumeric podcast. You can listen to it here.

Latest praise for the 2024 (and older) releases

With 2024 drawing to a close, it’s a good time to collect some of the recent praise for my three new books, Animal Husbandry, Civic Minded, and Votes of Confidence. All three are available wherever you buy books. Animal Husbandry is in paperback and ebook with an audiobook on the way. Both civics books are […]