Author Experiences

Every writer I know is asked the same questions: where do the ideas come from, how do you actually get the words down, and what happens when the first draft is terrible. These essays are my honest answers, gathered into one journey.

Follow the stops from the town that formed me through the travel industry years and the spark of memoir, then the habits, the doubts and the rewriting — and out the other side, to where the tools of the trade are changing faster than at any point in my lifetime.