EXPLORE THE NOTEBOOK
My own words: books in progress, short fiction, and notes on the process.
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At Coney Island's Dreamland in 1904, a nurse who keeps premature babies alive in glass incubators is caught between the lion tamer she's promised to and the quiet electrician who notices everything, while the park burns its way toward the fire of 1911.
One satellite breaks apart over Asia, the debris starts taking out everything else in orbit, and the people who make it home have to learn to live, and eventually fly, without the sky they built.
Mac is a modern kid who time travels without going anywhere, and while the pirate and rockstar trips are great, the ones that turn him into a cave kid fighting dinosaurs are a lot harder to come back from.
Christmas Eve, 1999, in Ocala, Florida: a teenage pot dealer watches the shadows in his pool hall start moving on their own, and has one week to turn his crew of misfits into the only thing standing between his town and something very old waiting in the springs for midnight.
In a future where people live five hundred years and every minute is scheduled, a straight-A cadet draws the one ship nobody wants and finds it full of squatters, jazz, poetry and a captain who's quietly steering them all toward the sun.
A casualty notification officer, ninety-some doors deep into other people's grief, accepts a cup of tea from a widow who knows exactly how to take him apart.
Somewhere past 40 I decided time was short and answered it by working harder, and now I'm working my way back.
A secondhand G.I. Joe missing a leg taught me more about what things are worth than anything I've owned since.
From the journal · Note 1 ↗What's in the songbook, where the songs came from, and where to hear the ones that made it onto a record.
What my novel about a casualty notification officer and the widow who takes him apart is about, how it changed between drafts, and what's still unresolved.
Notes on the novels · Note 5 ↗A short film about a father and son, told in reverse. It opens at the son's funeral and walks back, scene by scene, to the night he came home from the hospital.
The ideas drawer · Note 9 ↗Sitting in a parked car outside a pet store, I noticed the air coming through the window and realized how much of my life was happening indoors, in front of a screen.
From the journal · Note 2 ↗A sixteen-year-old in 1994 Seoul can hit Continue on his own life, and he spends every credit on a girl.
The ideas drawer · Note 1 ↗What Falling Stars is about, why the complete draft on the site is an early one, and what the rewrite changes.
Notes on the novels · Note 4 ↗What my Dreamland novel is about, the draft I threw out, how the current one changed, and the parts I still have to fix.
Notes on the novels · Note 3 ↗A secret program sends teenage pilots through time to patch a broken timeline, and the one leading them is being hunted by his own future self.
The ideas drawer · Note 2 ↗The eleven steps I use to take a song from a tempo and a drum beat to a finished, mastered track.
The songbook · Note 2 ↗What my Y2K horror novel about a teenage dealer and his crew is about, where it came from, how it changed between drafts, and what still needs fixing.
Notes on the novels · Note 2 ↗
