Newsletter Archive

A Why Iowa? Playlist Primer

• Why a playlist?

• What's the status of the manuscript? 

• What's next? 

Why I Needed to Compare My Writing to Bestselling Authors

• Comparing myself to bestselling authors

• Scenes from Why Iowa? 

• A manuscript update 

How I Found a Literary Agent (And Lived to Tell About It)

• The ups and downs of finding an agent 

• Thornton Wilder and AC/DC 

• A manuscript update 

I'll Be In Green Bay
Next Weekend

• UntitledTown: A free, community-driven book and author festival

• The biggest book I've read in 2026

• Rocky Mountain High (with Brandi Carlile)