The Fies Files

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] “The trouble with the world...

NEW INTERVIEW!   Graphic novelist, writer and publisher Dave Cowen has done a nice review of A Fire Story and a good interview with me for...

The View-Master with three of its reels. The red stamp reads "Defective: Not For Sale," which may be how they wound up at a state ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I saw a Facebook post askin...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Putting my cards on the tab...

Advance Notice: I'll be doing a Zoom book club event with librarian Jameson Rohrer of the Comics & Care Collective on Monday, June 9...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I enjoy cooking. It’s a cre...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I’m reluctant to give criti...

I reconnected with former syndicated cartoonist and bestselling middle-grade author Terri Libenson when she did a meet-and-greet at Copperfi...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] “Only amateurs get writer...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Twenty years ago, I was a s...

  (Photo of Fort Sumter (center) is from the National Park Service; photos of Alcatraz (left) and Columbia are by me.) Until this weekend, t...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] “Time keeps on slippin’ sli...