A mid-book excerpt from TENT CITY, which will be published in the spring of 2026. A speculative novel exploring the demise of the American Dream during an economic meltdown and one family's desperate efforts to hold on. 

Excerpts (not consecutive) from my multi-award-winning nonfiction book, written to inspire and encourage self-doubting creatives everywhere. See PROJECTS for a companion guidebook I devised to help multimedia creatives break through blockages and gain confidence. 

This essay originally appeared on Medium in the publication, Thinking Thoughts. The essay made an impact--resulting in a featured interview on an NPR member station in New England and an invitation to speak at a college faculty professional development meeting. I continue to mull the impacts of generative AI on human creativity and rising insecurity in the face of tools that appear to think for us. 

The opening pages of THE POTRERO COMPLEX, a speculative mystery-thriller. As the world recovers from a devastating and lethal pandemic, authoritarian forces arise in a small town and it falls to one reluctant resident to figure out why innocent teens keep going missing.