Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.