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Well, I’ve worked myself into a pickle here in Michigan with a novel revision due just as soon as I can finish it (aka now) and boatloads of work waiting in the wings. It’s a good [...]

Looking across a classroom filled with the bright, eager faces of my adult students never ceases to inspire me. This week, I happen to have 16 women. As varied as their ages and their smiles are, [...]

With a blaze of sound and color, the students of the 86th season of Interlochen Arts Camp have departed and summer is trickling to a close. Thousands of faculty, staff, and campers have left in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]