Second of a two-part interview with John M Donovan, who likes this format so much it might become a three-part interview, a four-part interview, or just the w...

First of a two-part interview with John M Donovan, author of Love and Corn and Whatnot and three other novels Q. So Love and Corn and Whatnot has been out fo...

My wife Cybil is about halfway through collecting all the Avengers Endgame Happy Meal toys, mainly to protect her desk at work from Thanos and any other thre...

I have recently learned that there are people who don’t read prologues. These are avid readers, I’m told. They just don’t read prologues. They buy books and ...

Not long after I published Trombone Answers, I started teasing that my next novel, The Rocheville Devil, would be coming soon. Two years later, I can tell yo...

(First in a series, I hope, of blog entries saluting people whose impact on my life is still felt today.) I had some weird misconceptions back in high school...

I’ve written a few dozen songs in my life but only a handful would be considered funny. One of these is called “Talking Kidney Surgery Blues” and it’s about ...

This is the essay I referred to in the previous blog post. I’ve updated it slightly and had to do some sleight-of-hand to correct my wrong assumption that Be...

Back in 1995 I quit my first ad-agency job in a misguided and financially irresponsible attempt to make a living writing freelance advertising copy. I say mi...

Back when I was attending Wabash College, English majors like me had to take three semesters of classes from the math and science department. I wasn't lookin...

A few weeks ago I posted a blog entry linking to some books that have been published by friends of mine. In that post I incorrectly noted that Amazon Pajamas...

The phrase “legendary naïveté” is something I first used years ago to describe my uncanny inability to recognize when a woman was interested in getting to kn...

If mainstream novels set in the 1970s aren’t your bag, let me suggest a handful of books written by actual friends of mine. First off, Dan Kuester and I work...

A previous draft of The Fraternity had a rather unorthodox chapter in which we met each pledge and active brother living in the Psi Alpha Chi house. This was...

Why indeed? There were any number of good choices for naming my writing/publishing enterprise, but I kept coming back to my old Indiana hometown of Hillsboro...