Happy birthday to my new baby!

Exit Wounds is now available for purchase. I’ve been working on the book for the past couple of years, and I’m excited to finally share it with readers.

As Wordsworth famously said, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” The same can be said of fiction.

While Exit Wounds takes place in San Francisco—a city I love and that is arguably the main character in the book—I wrote the novel from the relative tranquility of my new home in Minneapolis. The distance allowed me to see my time in San Francisco from the outside, but my love for the place has never diminished. (In case you’re wondering how I could ever leave, check Zillow for comparative real estate prices.)

Exit Wounds is a very personal story, centering on a man facing middle age and reassessing his relationship with his community. Writing it allowed me to immerse myself again in the world that was so important to me for 25 years. While those years may be physically behind me, they remain spiritually at my fingertips. I hope my love for the place comes through for you, as well.

Happy reading, friends!