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I talk to Rick Kleffel about CATCHPENNY and you can listen to it.

In the spring of 2022 I was sitting on the couch with my daughter Clementine when Stranger Things season 4 ruined the novel I’d been working on for over ten years.

The song is called Feel Like Dyin' and it is a part of the soundtrack of my life.

Me talking about Catchpenny and the Caught Stealing movie and things that are smelly and learning guitar.

Me talking about writing and drinking and drinking and writing. That seems to be my beat these days.

Music plays a huge rule in CATCHPENNY. Here's a link to a Spotify playlist...

My new book, CATCHPENNY, is going to publish in less than 48 hours. It represents a conscious effort on my part to embrace emotion and hope. I wrote most of it while I was depressed, suffering panic attacks on the reg, and drinking. As of the current moment, I am none of the above.

There's a longer story to tell, but that's the basics. CAUGHT STEALING the movie is a thing. Darren Aronofsy is directing, Austin Butler is starring as Hank. I'll add details as I may. Here's the press release as per Deadline.

It is easily the most shameless book I have written. The book that most wants to please and entertain, and the book in which I most shamelessly let myself write exactly what I wanted without being embarrassed.

Someone asked recently about this short piece I wrote in advance of the release of SKINNER. I'd forgotten it exited, but promised to dig it up and post it here. I'm not editing it so this is exactly where my head was at something like ten-eleven years ago. It is dated on so many ways, which I love.

The jetpack thing is something people from my generation (generation old) get pissed about. We grew up at the Space Shuttle end of the space race and we were promised jet packs not later than the dawn of the 21st century. We were also promised cool geodesic housing, infinite cheap energy, world peace, a clean planet, and water beds.

I don't even know why I'm trying to write something for this space right now. That sentence you just read? I had to correct four typos before I got to the end of writing it.