I now have a Ko-fi page, which allows one-time or monthly support for my work. Any and every amount helps me product and promote my work: extraordinary stories about ordinary Americans. Good stories don’t, and shouldn’t have to, conform to politics.
Producing and promoting stories requires time and money. Independent authors like me are often overlooked because of trends, sales, and genre. I do not answer to a board or a corporation and have no interest in being with the “right people” and saying the “right phrases.”
But this is where you help. Your support on Ko-fi, book purchases, and paid Substack subscriptions tilt the challenges of business and creating stories in my favor. A unique well-told story not only illuminates experiences, similarities, differences, joys, pains, fears, and hopes about our short time here on Earth, but it also attracts an audience that, like a snowball, attracts a larger audience, resources, and opportunities—all of which lifts the audience *and* the writer.
My ideal reader is the individual who invests in American culture, united by our shared heritage, history, and homeland (nooks and crannies and warts and all); loves plot, character, theme, and imagination; and longs to be entertained like the root sense of that word (to be held by). This everyday reader may have a degree, no degree, be a farmer, work in an office, or clean the office. And they prefer the local over the global and Main Street over Wall Street.
I love shaping and sharing stories that, be they novels or short fiction, focus on ordinary Americans real and imagined and offer an alternative towhat’s popular, what’s prescribed, or what’s assumed you’ll consume.
I make everything you read: from writing and editing the stories; to book interiors and covers; to online content and marketing materials. I have a long-standing interest and background in science, sports, and making stuff.
Thank you for your time, supporting my work, and spreading the word.