“Justice without mercy is cruelty.” — Thomas Aquinas Skidmore, Missouri — July 10, 1981 A man sits enjoying a drink with his wife at the D&G Tavern. The bartender is not overly fond of the gruff, loud, obnoxious man, but he is a regular — and his money spends just like everyone else’s — so he tolerates him. After paying the bill, the man and his disturbingly younger wife stumble out to their beat-up old Chevy truck. It’s the kind of truck every hard-working, salt-of-the-earth Midwestern man...

My current series is kind of dark, and my main protagonist could easily be classified as a grey character. He is, however, not truly one. The story is all about his struggle to find the balance between absolute justice and—as Thomas Aquinas said— “Justice without mercy is cruelty.”(He also said, “mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution,” but I digress.) While not necessarily a new concept, the antihero or sympathetic villain has clearly entrenched itself in the modern pop culture...

As an indie author I find that a lot of my friends and pretty much everyone else I talk to has no idea how publishing actually works. From those who read a lot, to those who don’t, they all tend to function under the same few misconceptions. Even though, they inhabit the same century I do, they seem to think the literary world still functions the same way it did thirty years ago. This even applies to people who weren’t alive back then.  Why is that? Honestly I have no idea. Most likely it is...