Umbrella Factory Magazine ran from the March 2010 Issue 1 until December 2019 Issue 40. it was a ten year running online magazine. I was fortunate enough to work on all 40 issues as editor in chief. I met a great many writers, poets, and other magazines in that time.Continue Reading
I got to be a part of Rocket House from 2009 until 2014. In that time I wrote a few screenplays, shot a music video, recorded a few soundtracks for animated short films and I wrote a directed a short film. Rocket House Studio and all the people there haveContinue Reading
For almost a decade I have written a blog post once a week. If I look back on the years 2010 to 2018, I can sum up all my posts into categories: things I wanted to share, blocks of instructions, book reviews, reading lists, author interviews and rants that IContinue Reading
At the time of this writing, there is one book getting published on Amazon every ninety seconds. If this post is approximately 600 words which should taken about three minutes to read, there will be four new books published on the online giant. Of the four books published during theContinue Reading
Autumn of 2009 found me as an adjunct faculty member on a very collegiate looking campus. I walked through the old buildings which were half vacant and somewhat crumbling in the quiet and abandoned nooks. It felt good to walk through the trees on the outskirts of campus as theContinue Reading
If there is anything that I am thankful for, it’s that I am unable to see the future. I know there are some people who wish they could see into the future, but for me, I think this would be a very dire curse. After all, if you knew whatContinue Reading
Lie to people. Lie to your family. Lie to your friends. Let everyone in the community think you’re rich, and possibly famous. Let everyone believe that the books you penned are best sellers, and if not here, or New York, then at least elsewhere like Tanzania, Tasmania or Transylvania. ItContinue Reading
The time never comes back. I’ve had the occasional time waste. I feel very fortunate that I don’t fall victim to the more conventional time sucks. I don’t have a television, and I never have. I do not play video games, have never been into sports. I have always feltContinue Reading
Getting paid is good. It’s nice to see a whole bunch of zeros behind, well, behind any number. However, that isn’t the case when you’ve decided to live the artist’s life. It has never ceased to amaze me how any number of people, friends and family members included, have neverContinue Reading
It’s early morning. The small hours. It’s darkness outside, the dark of night. This is the time of day when the late night people and the early morning people might overlap, but not due to personalities. It’s the small hours. And the dawn is far off. And on this dawn,Continue Reading