No one wants to admit that they’re a successful writer, filmmaker, painter, or musician in large part because they had a financially stable background. Talent and hard work certainly have something to do with where you end up, but zip code is still destiny.

His debut novel ‘A Cosmology of Monsters’ is both a horror novel and a rich love story, told with tenderness and brimming with darkness.

It is a paradox: that you can make a choice, yet, that everything is preordained? And it is in this space that I anchor my stories.

This goes back to my brief tenure as the head writer of the blog “How to Start Your Own Handyman Business.” I am not a handyman. Never have been.

Without writing, I wouldn’t be less lonely. I’d be estranged from my loneliness. Or worse, I’d be ashamed of it. To be an individual is to be lonely.