A lovely fall morning. Not quite cold enough to call brisk. A few degrees colder and it’d be perfect. I’m waiting for the commuter bus. I pull The Hooligan’s Return: A Memoir out of my bag. It’s a departure for me. Lately I’ve been feasting on lightweight stuff — speculative fiction, pseudo-marketing/social science stuff (The [...]

My wife and I were sitting in a Gospel Doctrine class of a former ward. They were good people in that ward, I had grown up knowing them. They were also a rather well to do ward, a majority of the members– certainly not all of them, but the majority of them– in some form [...]

Note: this is the second in a series of posts of ideas for improving/growing/sustaining the field of Mormon narrative arts.
A writers co-op can come in a variety of forms and levels of investment. In fact, the Mormon market already has a co-op: LDStorymakers. This is what I would term a “weak” co-op in that you [...]

On August 31st, I attended the Moab Poets and Writers gala celebrating the release of Glyphs III: Poems and Stories of the Colorado Plateau.

In my Diversity or Dilution? post, I wrote “But I’m going to think about this and see if any brilliant ideas pop into my head.” No brilliant ideas yet. I wasn’t expecting any. However, I have begun thinking about all the various things I can think of for helping out the field. I’m not an [...]

By now most AMV readers have heard of Coke Newell’s “On the Road to Heaven.” Reviews and news releases are good, but I’m pleased to post something that may convince you to give it a try — an essay on the novel by the author. Newell is a former PR flack so the thing has [...]