NEWS: PUBLISHING CONTRACT

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WHOO HOO! BREAKING NEWS. Just signed a publishing contract for my fourth novel. It’ll come out in 2026. (My third comes before then.)WHAT’S THIS MEAN TO YOU? It means fuel for your fireplace, another option for leveling wobbly tables, an extra “plinking” target when you run out of beer cans. DO THE MATH. Three hundred pages per book equals three hundred paper airplanes—enough for the PLANET’S LARGEST paper plane dog fight!I’m sure there’s other uses also. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE.

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Bad things happened, an entire run of them that shut me down, caused me to withdraw from everything except my inner self.

One afternoon, in a hammock, I took a photo of myself. Just my legs. But there was no one to send it to. No one to understand.

I needed a sidekick so I sketched an armadillo because they’re crusty on the outside but not within. I made him my butler. Crusoe’s manservant Friday.

We began interacting—my hammock photo speaking to that critter, that critter speaking back.There’s a folder of cartoons somewhere. For now there’s just this one. (LINK)

Eventually after that I began writing novels.

I’m still a hermit, marooned you might say, but leaving my shell more and more—my inner self seeking its freedom through writing.