VOTED BEST OF 2021!

I'm very pleased and humbled to announce that My Summer (Under a Crescent Moon) was nominated by a reader and then voted one of the top LGBTQIA young adult books of 2021 by Goodreads readers! To learn more about this title, or see the reviews, visit Goodreads by clicking here!

Last year presented me with a brand new challenge: editing a memoir written by another author. Here's what I learned from the experience, and some tips for those doing the same.

In part five of this ongoing series, Down the Teen TV Rabbit Hole, I look at a  show that never happened — the rumored  spin-off to The New Adventures of Wonder Woman featuring a male teen lead.

​For two years, Quinton Wyatt's social circle has revolved around T.J. Shapleigh. But a newfound interest in role-playing games acquaints him with a group of intelligent — and highly vindictive — teenage outcasts. He may live to regret this...

When a mysterious boy enters his foster home, it launches Tyler on a paranormal quest where lifetimes overlap and a murderer's still desperate to conceal his crimes forever. Learn more about  His Life Abiding on the MY BOOKS page. 

It's been a decade since Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy began to hit theaters. Looking back with fresh eyes, were the movies better than originally thought?

As a child, I always kept a nightlight burning in my bedroom. My mom assumed it was to scare away ghosts... but really it was about luring them in.

Surface was a short-lived science fiction show that dared to chart new territory by showing the deep sea as a place of mystery rather than terror.

A family photo project reminded me of a road trips from my childhood and how they ultimately came to influence some of my young adult novels. 

Before Star Wars was a cultural icon, a 10-year-old fanboy named Marsh Myers had to cling to some photographic crumbs and hope that there would be more to come from a galaxy far, far away...

Despite what my father thought, serial storytelling in popular culture is very much alive and well... and always has been. 

As soon as I began renovating my house, I began finding old coins in the walls, behind baseboards or wedged in doorjambs. Was this coincidental... or something much older and stranger?

Decades after I last played, I ventured back into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Here's why I fell in love with RPGs.

Trying to come up with a plot for your next story or book? This exercise forces you to create a plot based on very meager source material. How did you do?