12-27-2025
ANNOUNCEMENT:
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN KENTUCKY, BOOK III of the KENTUCKY BLOOD SERIES, is now available for pre-order!
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12-15-2025
Great news! I’m honored to announce that Kentucky Blood – Book I of the Kentucky Blood series has won First Place in the Fiction – DRAMA category of the 2025 Pencraft Awards!
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12-01-2025
IT’S OUT!!!!!!!!!
THE BATTLE OF THE SMOKEHOUSE, BOOK II of the KENTUCKY BLOOD SERIES is finally out! Available in ebook / paperback / hardcover on all global Amazon sites!
08-06-2025
Good news keeps coming! I’m honored to announce that Kentucky Blood has won FIRST PLACE for BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER and SECOND PLACE for BEST GOTHIC FICTION & BEST MYSTERY, THRILLER AND SUSPENSE!
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07-01-2025
BIG NEWS! Kentucky Blood has been listed as a finalist for BEST SOUTHERN GOTHIC in the 2025 KILLER NASHVILLE AWARDS!
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06-17-2025
I’m honored to announce that Kentucky Blood has been listed as a DISTINGUISHED FINALIST in the REGIONAL FICTION CATEGORY of the 2025 NYC BIG BOOK AWARDS.
You can see my listing and the other finalists here.
04-21-2025
I’m honored to announce that Kentucky Blood has won the BEST BOOK FOR FICTION – INTRIGUE in the PENCRAFT 2025 SPRING BEST BOOK AWARDS!
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03-15-2025
THE BATTLE OF THE SMOKEHOUSE, BOOK II OF THE KENTUCKY BLOOD SERIES, IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! RELEASE DATE: 11/30/25
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11-30-2024
IT’S OUT! Kentucky Blood is FINALLY RELEASED! Ebook / Paperback / Hardcover on EVERY GLOBAL AMAZON SITE. Also available for free on Kindle Unlimited!
10-20-2024
Unfortunately, I had to delay the release of Kentucky Blood by one month due to the untimely death of my father. It’s been a crazy time. But KB will still be released, just on Nov 30th, instead. Please don’t cancel your pre-order. Thank you!
05-05-2024
The AMAZON PRE-ORDER PAGE IS UP! I chose the release date as October 31st since Amazon severely punishes pre-order delays. It may very well be released before then. Of course, I’ll also have paperback and hardcover editions available for sale as it gets closer to the release date.
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04-15-2024
I’ve been honored to be selected as a finalist for the CRIME: FIRST CHAPTERS AWARD in The Plaza Prizes!
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01-20-2024
FINALLY – after 1.5+ years of non-stop writing every single day, I’m finally finished with the first complete draft of Kentucky Blood (Book I of the Kentucky Blood series.) Now begins the long journey of editing, incorporating feedback from beta-readers, etc.
10-10-2023
BIG NEWS! I won Third Place in the Kansas Author’s Literary Contest. This means that for the rest of my life, I am now an award-winning author. (Yes, third place still counts as an award – just barely, but it counts!)
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09-30-2023
I’ve been honored to be long-longlisted in the Grindstone Literary awards. Kind of like being a semi-finalist!
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09-15-2023
I’ve been honored to be selected as a finalist for the Inception Award in the Sunspot Literary Journal! This is an honor because Kentucky Blood isn’t even literary fiction, and I didn’t expect the judges to even consider it.
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08-14-2023
I’ve been honored to be Longlisted for the Writing Mentor Award in the Page Turner Awards. The Page Turner Awards is one of the biggest writing competitions in the UK (and maybe the world) so this is also a great honor!
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07-31-2023
I’ve been honored to be selected as a finalist in the Southern Gothic category for the Claymore Award in the Killer Nashville International Writers Conference. Killer Nashville is one of the biggest writing competitions in the USA (and maybe the world) so this is a big deal for me.
Click here to see my nomination and the other nominees.
03-11-2023
Creating this website from scratch using WordPress was far harder than I ever imagined. I’m sure there’s a million easier ways I could have done this and I just ended up blindly stumbling into one of the hardest ways. Seriously, even back in high school in the dial-up modem age, using WYSIWYG editors were easier than this. But I have a mailing list, a way for people to contact me, a way to share updates. It’s a start.
And we all have to start somewhere, don’t we?