ABOUT ME

This is the part where I’m supposed to list achievements and carefully arrange my life into a series of facts that make me sound impressive. Unfortunately, most of my actual achievements are in the music industry, and my literary résumé currently peaks with winning a city-wide “What Freedom Means to Me” writing contest in the eighth grade.

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I assume the Pulitzer committee simply lost my address. 

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So here’s the considerably less impressive (and much more boring) truth.

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I’m a husband, a father, and a musician who spends an irresponsible amount of time with books. Eventually, reading them wasn’t enough to scratch a growing creative itch, so I made the perfectly reasonable decision to attempt the notoriously simple task of writing a novel.

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It's going about as well as you would expect.

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I built this site so you can follow along while I read books, talk about books, and slowly discover all the ways writing a book is different from having opinions about them. You are welcome to join me. Or not. It’s your life. I have very little authority here.

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If you stick around, you’ll probably get book reviews, thoughts on whatever I’m reading, experiments in writing, occasional updates from the novel, and tangents that begin with a legitimate point before wandering into the woods and refusing to come home.

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That’s about as “me” as it gets.

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Well, that and the eighth-grade writing award.

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I really cannot overstate how prestigious it was.