LIFE AND TIMES
COMING SEPTEMBER 2020
August 26, 2019
Seems like ages, huh? It'll be worth the wait, I promise. I small press publisher has bought the rights to my short non-fiction book "Bleed with Me". In the book, I talk about my childhood, family, and advice on the writing life. It also includes a foreword by Mark Sieber and an introduction by author Ronald Kelly.
Funny how these things work out. One minute you're submitting and crossing your fingers, the next your staring at an E-mail with engaging words of acceptance. I was sitting on a porch of a 150-year-old Victorian-era home when I got the word. Soon, dear reader, soon.
8/5/19
The coughing is violent now. I only hope to achieve two things before my finality: to watch you complete your first kindergarten year, and finish the novel. Do not be sad. Do not shed one tear for me. I'm doing what I love. It has been a wild ride. I wonder if I will be remembered as a good writer or a poor writer. Was I a good grandfather/father?
Live your days as if it's your end, Rhett. Be unchained. Do not shroud yourself with struggles and ideals of life. Roam the world. Know risks, and be unafraid of whatever might visit you in the dark.
Be not jealous of those who have caught you on the stairway of life. Be not envious of those who came before you. Bleed onto that filthy page with vulgarity and convection, and let it spew in gouts of lawless wrath by which souls will have no choice but to receive. Save yourself from people who hold you behind. Denounce the very name they bear, even if it means hurling them aside. It is your choice to live or die. I've been dying my whole life. As the great actor, Morgan Freeman once said, "Get busy dying, or get busy living." I have arrived at a crossroads by which there is no return. I will not bury my possessions at this junction. Live long, my dear grandson. Live long and know I will see you again in a hundred years.
August 26, 2019
Seems like ages, huh? It'll be worth the wait, I promise. I small press publisher has bought the rights to my short non-fiction book "Bleed with Me". In the book, I talk about my childhood, family, and advice on the writing life. It also includes a foreword by Mark Sieber and an introduction by author Ronald Kelly.
Funny how these things work out. One minute you're submitting and crossing your fingers, the next your staring at an E-mail with engaging words of acceptance. I was sitting on a porch of a 150-year-old Victorian-era home when I got the word. Soon, dear reader, soon.
8/5/19
The coughing is violent now. I only hope to achieve two things before my finality: to watch you complete your first kindergarten year, and finish the novel. Do not be sad. Do not shed one tear for me. I'm doing what I love. It has been a wild ride. I wonder if I will be remembered as a good writer or a poor writer. Was I a good grandfather/father?
Live your days as if it's your end, Rhett. Be unchained. Do not shroud yourself with struggles and ideals of life. Roam the world. Know risks, and be unafraid of whatever might visit you in the dark.
Be not jealous of those who have caught you on the stairway of life. Be not envious of those who came before you. Bleed onto that filthy page with vulgarity and convection, and let it spew in gouts of lawless wrath by which souls will have no choice but to receive. Save yourself from people who hold you behind. Denounce the very name they bear, even if it means hurling them aside. It is your choice to live or die. I've been dying my whole life. As the great actor, Morgan Freeman once said, "Get busy dying, or get busy living." I have arrived at a crossroads by which there is no return. I will not bury my possessions at this junction. Live long, my dear grandson. Live long and know I will see you again in a hundred years.