I do most of my important work on the PC that is crammed in the corner of the loft above my bedroom, a space the former homeowner used as a giant walk-in closet, and which I now use as a sort of writing bunker– Internet-free, disgracefully messy, and littered with marked-up manuscript pages. On [...]

So the Training Camp signing wasn’t quite the rousing success I’d anticipated, in that I sold one book and signed one during a three hour stretch, some portions of which were fairly depressing, as people blew past me the way a city dweller brushes off a homeless person, as if I didn’t exist at all. [...]

Two bits of news to share today, after a bit of a lull in posting that can be blamed in equal measure on the following:
1) I’m dog-sitting a 125 puppy whose introduction to the ecosystem of my house has upset the balance of pretty much everything, particularly when it comes to my two senior dogs [...]

Two more events have been scheduled for the coming months.  If you still haven’t had the chance to pick of your copy of Bury Me in My Jersey– or you just want to get your copy signed– be sure to check out the events page for full info.
The highlights:
On August 4, I will be at [...]

From the time I was about eight years old until I was 18, my morning routine was the same: eat a bowl of sugary cereal (or, if I was stuck with Cheerios, add heaping mounds of sugar to it, so that there was a viscous sludge of sugar at the bottom of the bowl when [...]

I always hoped the first column about me on Huffington Post would be written by Alec Baldwin, but I suppose I’ll settle for Tommy Lawlor.
Side note: I once met Arianna Huffington, while working as a college intern (for ABC) at the Republican National Convention in 2000.  I had to work the teleprompter for her because [...]

I hate having to write a title for every post– it’s impossible to write a good one every time.
Anyway, today’s edition of the South Jersey Courier post includes a profile on me and BMIMJ. A sample:

He found his own agent in Katherine Boyle, founder of Veritas Literary Agency in San Francisco, an agency which rejects [...]

Just a reminder, there are only two more book-signing events scheduled before Father’s Day, and I likely won’t be doing another reading/signing until late summer, so if you’re looking for a signed copy, come out to Chester County Books (West Chester) on 6/16 at 7 PM or Doylestown Bookshop (Doylestown) on 6/18 at 7:30 PM.
If [...]

The excellent Eagles blog (do other NFL teams have so many great blogs covering them? It seems like Eagles fans are pretty lucky in that regard) Bleeding Green Nation, in addition to offering a few kinds words about the book, are running an essay contest to give away a free copy of it.  So if [...]

The folks over at the great literary journal Hobart have just published their online issue, which includes a roundtable discussion between first-time authors, and they were kind enough to include me.  It’s an interesting look at the publishing process from the eyes of a lot of newcomers, and also it’ll expose you to a bunch [...]