Novelist & Story Coach
I write novels about ordinary people caught in difficult human questions—truth and deception, justice and revenge, belief and doubt, loyalty and betrayal, suffering, power, conscience, and responsibility.
Selected Novels
Mystery, suspense, crime, family conflict, and ordinary lives under pressure.
The Boaz Superstition
A psychiatrist, a small Alabama town, and a question few people want asked: what if the beliefs everyone takes for granted are wrong?
The Boaz Schoolteacher
A woman returns to Boaz carrying an old wound—and a plan that forces the line between justice and revenge into dangerous territory.
The Boaz Stranger
A decades-old disappearance draws an aging widower back into buried secrets, old loyalties, and questions that never really went away.
The Boaz Scorekeeper
When power and privilege repeatedly escape accountability, one man decides to keep the score himself.
For Writers
I work with only one or two beginning novelists at a time through a year-long, in-person program centered at West Hollow Writing Studio near Boaz.
It is for people who have long dreamed of writing a first novel and are ready to make that dream a serious commitment.
Learn About the Program
Explore West Hollow
A Place to Write
For people who write novels—and people who have always wanted to.
I write about beginning, story development, the craft of fiction, and what I continue learning while writing my own novels.
Read A Place to Write on Substack
