by Justin | Jan 1, 2018 | inspiration
It’s been a while since I posted an update here, but it’s customary to do some kind of year end post with these things, right? A look back at the year in review and some kind of inspirational message about all of the things you’re going to...
by Justin | Aug 15, 2017 | inspiration
I’m a kid of the 80s. Born in ’74, grew up in the hay day of G.I. Joe, Transformers, He-Man, and the birth of console video games. I sit here at 43 and still love all of these things. My writing room is full of toys, I’ve got an X-Box One and...
by Justin | Apr 9, 2017 | inspiration, writing
I’ve written about where I find my inspiration before, and have been pretty clear that without Captain America: The Winter Soldier, my second novel Loose Strands would be a considerably different work. As I think back to when I wrote that and what other films...
by Justin | Mar 2, 2017 | inspiration, writing
I hope in reading these words you’re not expecting some world-bending enlightenment on my part. Because brothers and sisters, I don’t have it. As an American, I’ve been raised to believe that ultimately success = dollars. To be considered...
by Justin | Oct 25, 2016 | inspiration
Even for folks who are really important to me (but people who I don’t know) I’m not often personally affected by their deaths. For some reason, though, comic book artist Steve Dillon has hit me pretty hard. Maybe it’s because I recently finished...
by Justin | Feb 15, 2016 | inspiration, Movies
Yes, I’m a shameless comic book superhero fan, and I believe that my love in comics at an early age is what drove me to be the voracious reader and writer that I am today. Two of the biggest influences to me as a kid were Frank Miller’s run on Daredevil...
