The storyline of We Fell Apart  revolves around a fiercely independent eighteen-year-old gamer girl, Matilda, who was not only abandoned by her father before birth but has also recently been abandoned by her mother (two years prior) and her boyfriend (days prior). While deep in a funk over these setbacks, she receives a tantalizing email from the father she has never seen or corresponded with. He is inviting her to meet at his isolated and remote artist-colony-like wooden cas

I am occasionally delighted by a discovery in the little free library down the road (and grateful for the crowd-sourced curation of this...

Bildungsroman. Hah! A term/genre new to me, anyway. Recently a reviewer called the Vox Oculis series "a true bildungsroman." I am not...

The Jackal’s Mistress  is an American Civil War novel inspired by a true event wherein a woman in the Confederate state of Virginia hid a...

I find that coming-of-age fiction set in a historical context can be a powerful and compelling combination. Books like Anthony Doerr’s...

Right off the bat I'll tell you that, at 200 pages, I found this to be a quick and highly engaging read. There is no fluff or padding in...

Note: This is a review I posted in Goodreads a few years ago. It is worth repeating here because I think this is one of Neal Shusterman's...

A big thank you to the staff of San Antonio Review for publishing my flash-fiction short story, "Pass." It is a quick (and free) read on...

Okay. You may be asking yourself, “Why is this guy reviewing a 1967 children’s book?” I’ll tell you why. It’s because I think everyone ...

All of us have “If I had only …” moments. All of us occasionally fantasize about what life might have been like if we had taken a...

If you haven't already gone down this rabbit hole, prepare to spend a worthwhile fifteen minutes or more (a lot more) watching the...

Book 3 is ready at last. Publishing September 1st! It's always satisfying holding the real deal in your hand even if it is a proof copy....

When I started writing the Vox Oculis series, I was worried that I was writing a "YAPOB"—Yet Another Poor Orphan Book—just another author...

When you are looking for a gripping adventure story with superhuman characters overcoming incomprehensible adversity, I think I can...

Let me start by saying that like all Bohjalian novels, this book is exceptionally well written. In reading other reviews of "Close Your...

My wife is a naturalist and she recently went down a rabbit hole on the internet when researching " dimorphism " (male birds having a...

Blue, Will, and Bronco are back as well as a host of new intriguing characters in book 2 of the Vox Oculis series: "The Innocence of...

You've probably seen lots of press about Vermont lately, thanks to Bernie Sanders, and have some impressions rattling around inside your...