An Apology, A Reset, and A Promise (Now With Fewer Cobwebs!)

If you’ve ever discovered a new author, gotten excited, and immediately gone hunting for more information… you know the feeling.

You click through to their website expecting updates, news, maybe a glimpse into what they’re working on next.

And instead, you find a digital time capsule.

Old announcements. Blog posts from two or three years ago. A homepage that looks like it last saw human contact sometime before a major global event everyone is tired of talking about.

It’s deflating. It makes the author feel distant, inactive — possibly fossilized.

Right now, that author is me.

My website has been stale. Outdated. Quiet long enough that if it were a fridge, I’d be afraid to open it.

So if you’ve read my work — or even just discovered it and came looking for more — I owe you an apology.

You deserved better than a digital ghost town and a “last updated” date that could legally apply for a driver’s permit.

The truth is, life has a way of hijacking momentum. Work, obligations, energy, and the general chaos of existing in the modern world all compete with writing. Sometimes writing loses a few rounds. Sometimes it loses a whole season.

But it never actually goes away.

And I’ve been thinking a lot about what it feels like to discover a writer you connect with, only to realize they’ve seemingly vanished. No updates. No signs of life. Just silence and the faint echo of what used to be.

That’s not what I want this space to be.

Because this website is my home base. My headquarters. My one reliable outpost.

I have absolutely no intention of crawling back into the steaming, stinking cesspool of social media. No endless feeds, no performative posting, no chasing algorithms like a raccoon after a shiny object. And definitely no getting sucked into the kind of circular arguments that only get the bots excited while slowly grinding down a human’s… okay, my… mental health.

So this site matters.

It has to be alive. Maintained. Updated by someone who clearly still has a pulse.

And that’s the commitment I’m making — to you and to myself.

I’m going to overhaul this place. Clean it up. Keep it current. Treat it like the living, breathing home base it’s supposed to be instead of the online equivalent of a storage locker I occasionally remember exists.

More importantly, I’m committing to doing the work behind the scenes that makes updates worth posting in the first place.

That means more writing. More finished projects. More stories actually making it out into the world instead of living forever as “ideas I’ll get to eventually.”

It also means getting out into bookstores and shops, making connections, and making sure the books are where readers can actually find them — not just floating around the internet like urban legends.

Because if you’ve read my work — whether one story or many — you’re part of this whole strange ride already.

And if you’re just discovering it now, I want you landing in the middle of something active. Something moving. Not the abandoned remains of a creative project that quietly drifted off into the void.

So yes — this is an apology.

But it’s also a reset. A line in the sand. A public declaration that the lights are back on and someone’s home.

I’m here. I’m writing. I’m working. And I’m going to make sure this space reflects that from now on.

There will be updates. There will be progress. There will be new stories. And there will be a visible effort to keep things moving forward instead of disappearing for years at a time. The plan is, a new blog every Monday and Thursday...come Hell or high water.

If you’ve stuck around, checked in, or taken a chance on one of my books — thank you. Seriously.

And if you’re new here, welcome. You’re arriving right as things start moving again.

Thanks for being along for the ride.

More soon. And this time, I mean it.

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