• Trick, Treat, and Time Machines

    Some ghosts don’t rattle chains — they rattle notebooks. Fourteen days have passed since my last post, and like any haunted house, the silence has its own echo. But today — Halloween 2025 — I’m reviving my writing ritual. Not through magic, but through Atomic Habits. James Clear reminds us that lasting change isn’t about…

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  • My First Pancake

    My First Pancake

    Even as a little kid, I loved—and still love—to tell stories. My imagination simply never rests, like an app running background refresh on Ultron (my trusty iPhone 13 Pro). I’m no therapist, but I think those stories helped me make sense of the world outside my own head. They gave shape to the chaos, a way to…

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  • T.E.A.M. | Together Everyone Achieves More

    T.E.A.M. — Together Everyone Achieves More.Years ago, I borrowed—no, let’s be honest, plagiarized—that acronym from my friend, Diana Bechel. Over time it’s been distilled into my own mantra:“Collaborative efforts yield better results.” That truth has followed me through every stage of my writing journey. When I wrote Napkin Nights, I learned the hard way that…

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  • Tenet #1: Write Beyond the Page

    📦✨ They’re here! Fresh from Vistaprint — my brand-new author bookmarks. Instead of business cards, I wanted something readers will actually keep, slip into a book, and maybe even collect. Front: my published titles (Napkin Nights and The Murder of Crowe) with a teaser for The Clockwork Coroner.Back: a scan-to-shop QR code + my favorite…

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  • One of the things I’ve learned as an author is that the story doesn’t end when you type the last sentence. Sharing a book is as much about connection as it is about pages — conversations in the break room, quick chats with friends, even chance encounters with strangers who ask, “So what are you working…

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  • Same detectives. New city. Deadly secrets.

    Six years ago, in 2019, I packed my bags for Costa Rica with a goal — to write my second book with the same intensity as Hemingway in his bungalow days: no distractions, no technology, no easy excuses. Just me, my words, and the occasional break to explore with my friend Arturo Fait Morales. I…

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  • In the age of steam, murder runs on clockwork

    In the winter of 1886, Philadelphia hums with the gears of industry — and the whispers of murder. The Clockwork Coroner follows Price & McNittle, two former Pinkerton detectives turned private eyes-for-hire, as they navigate the soot-choked streets and smoky parlors of the Eastern Seaboard. From gaslit alleys to marble opera houses, they unravel cases…

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