Book is Broadcast in Afghanistan & Beyond
Flashes of War was featured on prime time world television this weekend via TOLO News, the #1 news source in Afghanistan broadcast around the world. Their Saturday night talk show news called [...]
Dachshund Tricks
In case anyone has been wondering who Duckie is in the Acknowledgments of Flashes of War, he’s one of two very special dogs recognized in the book. In fact, my many summer walks in Michigan [...]
Owning the Path You’re On
Breaking News: Flashes of War has been selected as a Finalist for the Literary Fiction BOOK OF THE YEAR award given by the Military Writers Society of America. It looks like I’m in good [...]
How to Prepare for a TV Interview
Well, I made it through my first-ever TV author spotlight without a hitch and I thought I’d take a moment to share a cheat sheet I put together. I’ve never been interviewed on [...]
Notes from Halfway
For local readers, a quick PSA regarding today and tomorrow’s key book events: Benjamin Busch Join me Monday, July 15 @ 2pm at The Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor, MI. This is a dual author [...]
A Celebration of Teen Writers
This week my dear Intermediate Creative Writing Majors will don their required performance attire (blue knickers, red socks) and publicly read their hard-earned poems and stories. Even though [...]
Getting Back In
It should not have been a surprise that what it took was a bit of beach time (sunsets, floating on the water), a bit of reading (currently: Pam Houston’s Contents May Have Shifted), and [...]
Blurry on the Edges
What can I say? These kids are the best. Sure, most of them were “required” to attend my faculty reading at Interlochen Center for the Arts. They are, after all, Creative Writing [...]
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer at Interlochen?
Living on campus with 5,000 artists–youth and colleagues alike–is pretty incredible. It’s one of the things that keeps me coming back to Interlochen every summer. I walk to my [...]
