Put on your sunglasses, because:
I'm excited to announce that my new book, EVERYTHING IS BRIGHTER NOW, is available now!
Click the links below to get your copy!
This is the follow up to A LIT WICK, and the second book in what I'm calling "The Burning Insight" series -- a very personal collection poems and short stories based on my life. This book was written over a three year period, after quitting my job, moving to...
The decision to leave my home and my job wasn't an easy one, but something that felt necessary at the time. The stagnation in my life had moved well beyond those things, and I was in desperate need of something new.
New doesn't even cover it. Transformative. Explosive.
It was time to blow it all up and dig deeper into who I was and how I'd become that person. I'd lost myself in the daily grind and the ways I was coping with that grind. It wasn't healthy, I wasn't happy, and aside from some...
It wasn't enough to quit my job and skip town. The change my life was craving needed to be bigger than that.
I wanted to be on my own in a way that I never had. I wanted a whole new world, surrounded by nature, where I could concentrate on my writing, healing, understanding who I was, and unlearning the ways I'd been taught to think and live.
After some false starts in Oregon and Montana, a new place fell in my lap -- on a working cattle ranch in high desert of Colorado -- and I couldn't have...
I'd had my fill of my day job. Office politics, rude people, and a lousy, long commute eating up 2 hours of my day had left me exhausted. My creativity was sapped. A terrible, on again, off again relationship was only adding to the problem.
I was just about to quit when Covid hit. Suddenly, I was working from home and my job was tolerable again. I had more time. I could do laundry or dishes on my lunch break instead of rushing to do a million things after work, then trying (and usually...
My first novel, the YA Mystery Horror Comedy, WELCOME TO DAHMERVILLE, won the PENCRAFT AWARD for BEST MYSTERY / SLEUTH of FALL 2024!
Thank you again for everyone's support. It means a TON to get positive feedback on something you've invested all of your time, effort (and yes, money) into.
Enjoy what's left of Spooky Season! Pick up your copy on Amazon / Kindle and autographed books are still available through my site - HERE!
Thanks!
Chris