The Author Guy Blog

 4th February 2025 Hello out there, Welcome back. For those who have read my award-winning novel  Blue by You , you know “Blue” in the title is a dog. Actually, three generations of Australian Shepards owned by my male protagonist who names each of them the same. I love dogs, and have featured them in all four of my novels. Before  Blue by You , each of the dogs was a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel because I’ve owned two over the past twenty years, sequentially not consecutively. From the same breeder, they were cousins. My first Cavalier was named Mosby, and he passed away a few months shy of his eleventh birthday. My current little four-legged best buddy is Jackson and we celebrated his eleventh a few weeks ago. Sadly, we’ve learned he has cancer, with perhaps only a few months remaining. I’m sharing this in the context of my blog that will always be author or writing focused because I intend to continue to write a dog into every book I write, be it a novel or a shortene...

  31st May 2024 Hello out there, Welcome back. Gonna diverge quiet a bit from focusing on my author journey to share another journey I’m on. A few years ago, I was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma brain tumor. Benign (meaning it’s non-cancerous), but it can grow. Thankfully, it hasn’t changed size or shape since diagnosis, and I’m monitored at Vanderbilt University Hospital once/year. But, one of the symptoms of an A/N is the complete loss, over time, of all hearing in just one ear. I’m almost there. Since it’s my left ear, my son suggests I refer to it as “Vince” in a nod to Vincent Van Gogh. Good to see I’m getting a great return on funding six years and two degrees at prestigious universities  I mention this not to elicit sympathy, rather to speak to a whole new world that has opened up to me via what’s known as “Closed Captioning” – the spoken words on television and movies broadcast on streaming services that are converted to printed words at the bottom of the screen. T...