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Newsletter — April 2026
Worth Your Weight In Pie Newsletter Field Notes from the world of Silas Lopez ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
Press & Reviews — The Washashore
This is where I'm collecting and posting trade reviews and press mentioons of the The Washashore as they come in. Provincetown's new police chief must whip the local force into shape while tackling a fatal hit-and-run case in Mirabile's vivid series opener. Silas...
Why I Self-Publish
People sometimes ask why I chose the self-publishing route. For me, it came down to fit. For what I'm trying to do, self-publishing was the better path—and it wasn't close.Creative OutletFirst, I wanted a creative outlet. I was an English major and always thought I’d...
Newsletter — March 2026
Worth Your Weight In Pie Field notes from the world of Silas Lopez. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
First Bookstore Launch Event
Launch day for The Washashore is just three weeks away and we've made the arragements for the my first ever bookstore event. With some networking help from a good friend we found the perfect moderator: a leadership coach who has been building a side hustle doing...
The Sweet Relief of Not Being Panned
I just experienced something that a writer—or performer or artist—only gets once in a lifetime: my first professional trade review. And thank my lucky stars, they didn’t come for me.In fact, quite the opposite. My first two professional reviews arrived at the same...
