Reflections, Research, and the Occasional Tangent
Writing a book is rarely a straight line. It's more like a spiral—circling back to ideas, revisiting characters, finding new layers in what seemed finished. These journal entries document the process as it unfolds: the breakthroughs, the obstacles, the research rabbit holes, and everything in between.
One of the wonderful things about writing is discovering just how many perfectly legitimate, genuinely useful things you can do for a book while avoiding the terrifying business of actually writing the bloody thing.
Read MoreI moved to Australia in 2019 with this wonderful plan to semi-retire, work less, and finally have time to write. Then COVID happened and reality, as it so often does, looked at my carefully constructed plan and laughed.
Read MoreI started writing this story in 2014, got told it was utter crap, stopped writing it, tried again with something even bigger, got told that was crap too, and stopped again. Apparently, however, nobody told the story it was supposed to die.
Read MoreEvery story starts somewhere. For A Road Between Us, it began with a single question that wouldn't let go.
Read MoreThe concept of a sundered veil between realities has been a thread woven through many traditions—mythological, philosophical, and scientific.
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