Writing
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THE SWITCH HAS BEEN FLIPPED Six years and six months ago, on December 1, 2019, I published my first novel, The Murder of Crowe. Today, June 1, 2026, I’m proud to announce that my second novel, The Clockwork Coroner, is officially live. What started as a simple idea grew into countless late nights, notebooks, outlines,…
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May 31, 2026 – The gears are turning. Now that The Clockwork Coroner has officially been uploaded to my editor, I’m confident enough to finally say this out loud: Barring any major rewrite requests, I anticipate a publication date of June 1, 2026 for both digital (Amazon Kindle) and print editions. And yes … regardless…
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I realize I’ve been a little quiet lately.The stillness wasn’t a sign that I’d stepped away from writing — quite the opposite. For the past several months, much of my creative energy has been focused on The Clockwork Coroner, my mystery/adventure novel set in 1886 Philadelphia. Late nights, early mornings, coffee mugs, legal pads, scribbled…
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Back to the Case Files Somewhere between February and the end of March, my writing consistency slipped. Not vanished. Not abandoned. Just… drifted. Recently, I went back through my birthday cards and gifts and realized something I had completely overlooked. Alongside a beautifully crafted journal, Marc and Melanie had also given me a compass and…
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There’s a quiet moment in every creative project where something shifts. Not the launch.Not the announcement.But the moment when the work stops being theoretical and starts leaving fingerprints in the real world. For The Clockwork Coroner, that moment came when I designed a small set of physical tools: a custom ink pen and a matching…
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Even though the inspirations for my previous two books came from the same muse, the feelings behind them couldn’t be more different — and honestly, the book covers show it. Napkin Nights was pure ignition.I was inspired. I was writing. I was amped.I had a hype man in my ear and a fire at my…
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Act III. Those two words alone have enough voltage to jolt me awake faster than a triple-shot Americano. This morning’s writing session felt like hitting the final turn of a long, winding race — momentum doing half the work, adrenaline doing the rest. And yes, the coffee helped. A day without coffee is like… actually,…
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According to James Clear’s Atomic Habits, lasting behavior change starts with environment. If you want a habit to stick, give it a designated space — a room, a desk, a corner of the world that exists for one repeated purpose. The LEGO Room Before I even moved up from Arizona, Jen told me she wanted…
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Not every update needs to be about word count. Sometimes progress looks like keeping your story in readers’ hands — literally. I reached out to a few readers who hadn’t grabbed a Murder of Crowe, The Clockwork Coroner bookmark when I first released them. Each one responded with warmth, and I mailed out the Prologue,…
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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…
The Clockwork Coroner 