Worth Your Weight In Pie Newsletter Field notes from the world of Silas Lopez. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
Newsletter — May 2026
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In Conversation with Mary Cronin
I recently had the opportunity to join my friend Mary Cronin on her podcast Why Authors Write. We had a fun and wide-ranging discussion about my transition into fulltime authorship and some of the things I've learned so far. Mary's description of the episode is below...
May Author Events
You're Invited: Two May Book Events May 1 @ JFK Museum Hyannis & May 22 @ Provincetown Bookshop ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
Newsletter — April 2026
Worth Your Weight In Pie Newsletter Field Notes from the world of Silas Lopez ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
Newsletter — March 2026
Worth Your Weight In Pie Field notes from the world of Silas Lopez. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
Career Milestone Unlocked! ✅
When I started out on this journey toward becoming a fiction author, I had no idea what to expect. It turned out to be a lot harder, a lot more entrepreneurial, and a lot more work than I anticipated. The writing and editing are the stumbling blocks people typically...
Why I Wrote the Heart of My First Novel Backwards (And Why It Saved the Book)
The Writing I Did Before Chapter One // Before I typed a single line of the first chapter of The Washashore, I wrote all twenty-three scenes featuring Wren and Silas. Not an outline. Not notes. The actual scenes—drafted, revised, and polished—before I touched anything...
Washashore Excerpt—Silas’s Upbringing
Introduction Everyone I speak to about the books is fascinated by the background of this mystery cowboy Silas Lopez. Nobody explains it better than Silas himself, so I am sharing an excerpt from book one, The Washashore, in which Wren Bradfrord manages to draw a...
Meet Silas, Former Rancher Turned Cape Cod Crime Fighter
Where did I get the idea for my main character Silas Lopez, a former-ranch-hand-turned-police-chief who ends up on the outermost tip of Cape Cod? Well, this man of few words was born of my experiences and daydreams during thousands of miles spent exploring and camping...