A Heart Blown Open has been nominated for Book of the Year by Foreword Reviews.  It was chosen from among 1,300 entries from small and academic publishers.  The winner will be chosen on June 28th by a panel of 60 liberians and booksellers. It has also WON the Silver Medal Award from Nautilus Books, for 2013. http://www.nautilusbookawards.com/ [...]

On January 21st, I signed a contract with North Atlantic Books for my third book, called “Turning the Key: How Emotional Struggle becomes Spiritual Liberation”. Turning the Key takes a step-by-step approach to what has become a vexing problem in spiritual circles.  While we are more and more familiar with popular ideas of Enlightenment and spiritual [...]

The last few months a strange thing has happened. I’ve been interviewed, quite a few times in fact. This is an interesting turn of events for a number of reasons. The first is that it’s never happened before, which makes the experience a novel one, to say the least. Second, and perhaps most importantly, I’m being [...]

I’ve talked quite a bit about the process of becoming a published author, a process that for me was littered with rejection letters.  In my late twenties, I even resorted to taking a few years off trying to get published so that I wouldn’t have to create new work while getting constant rejection on the [...]

In the winter of 2009 I sat in my cozy farmhouse, overlooking the Rocky Mountains with a package ripped open in front of me, literally sweating with pride. I assure you, it is not easy to sweat with pride, but I managed it. You see, my brand-new book was in-hand, freshly shipped from the publisher. It [...]