Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve had several short stories published in college magazines, but this is my fist novel. I have taught high school English, Biology, History, and am now teaching Physics. After school I coach baseball and am the offensive coordinator for our varsity football team. Whenever I’m not doing that stuff, I write and read.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Them Rabbit Foot Blues” describes my experience returning from warfare overseas to a home, a different society than I left. Along with homecoming to a strange land, the book captures my journey of sobriety. May sound like a bummer, but most of all, I wanted to write something fun to read.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I crank music. Loud. Very. Meanwhile I rock back and forth like a spaz.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Toole’s “Confederacy of Dunces” is my favorite book so I’m certain there’s influence there. Yet I’d say that I wrote the novel within an “Alice in Wonderland” framework. Curioser and curioser.
What are you working on now?
Writing this first book is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I’ve been reading and researching for my next one however. Think, psychedelic western.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m a terrible self-promoter and cripplingly shy. So…ah yeah.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write. Read. Edit. Repeat.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Writers write.”
What are you reading now?
Westerns.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I teach Physics class tomorrow at 7 am.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The Bible
A dictionary
Skrunk & White
Author Websites and Profiles
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