“…. I soon came to feel that teaching these sensitive young souls Latin and mathematics was cheating them of something far more essential — what they needed wasn’t dry information but hope, the kind that comes from being transported into a dream-world of possibility.” — Helen Fagin  Writers are the most influential people in the … Read more

Stay tuned for the further adventures of Carson Camaratz, ordinary teen, as he continues to do his homework, play video games, hang out with other ordinary teens, and gets reminded to do his laundry! Writing a novel with a teenager as the protagonist presents an obvious difficulty. How do you get a teenager involved in … Read more

Sometimes I wish that all of my 112 YouTube subscriptions would be seized by a single idea and spit out the exact same content, down to the titles, at the same time. Like, off the top of my head, videos titled, “Is AI going to rule the freaking world???” Something like that. On a different … Read more

I will now attempt to answer a cosmic question that has eluded even the best of authors for centuries. Now, as a general rule, females are much better at writing males than males are at writing females. That said, there are some critical mistakes that I have noticed over the years when it comes to … Read more

Have you ever listened to a public speaker who sounded like James Bond? Didn’t it seem like you could listen to them forever just because their accent was so cool? They could have been lecturing on the dangers of pesticide use in Midwestern strawberry farms and you wouldn’t have cared—every word they said was like … Read more