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Nelson is the first rooster I ever met in my life. We thought he was a she at first, only because we had requested all hens in our first...

Don Morton was married to my cousin Mary Beth Trimmer but I’m pretty sure we would have been friends under any circumstances. He was easy...

Fluffball! is undergoing a bit of an overhaul and should be ready to hit the market in March. Here's what happened. In fiction, your...

Exciting news around Hillsboro Publishing these days: John M Donovan has announced that his fifth novel, Fluffball!, will be available...

Sure, it's a video produced with a single static camera shot and the absolute minimum amount of editing, but it is a video. And if you...

Piano Ball is a game I like to play sometimes while I'm waiting for the chickens and ducks to retire to their shed for the night. It's...

In my day job as an advertising copywriter, I’ve done a lot of mingling with PR writers who refuse to use the serial comma. I’ve also...

Second of a two-part interview with John M Donovan, who likes this format so much it might become a three-part interview, a four-part...

First of a two-part interview with John M Donovan, author of Love and Corn and Whatnot and three other novels Q. So Love and Corn and...

Jim Bouton, a former major league pitcher and one of my literary heroes, died last week at the age of 80 after battling a form of...

My wife Cybil is about halfway through collecting all the Avengers Endgame Happy Meal toys, mainly to protect her desk at work from...

I was recently chosen to participate in one of those Facebook games where you post ten albums that had an impact on you—one album cover...

I have recently learned that there are people who don’t read prologues. These are avid readers, I’m told. They just don’t read prologues....

Here's a fun 90-second video for you. Thanks to my friend Dave Stuck for producing and editing!

Not long after I published Trombone Answers, I started teasing that my next novel, The Rocheville Devil, would be coming soon. Two years...

(First in a series, I hope, of blog entries saluting people whose impact on my life is still felt today.) I had some weird misconceptions...

Book Review: The Cave Ghost by John M Donovan Reviewed by M. Creighton, Palookaville Weekly Shopper When I heard that literary historians...

I’ve written a few dozen songs in my life but only a handful would be considered funny. One of these is called “Talking Kidney Surgery...

This is the essay I referred to in the previous blog post. I’ve updated it slightly and had to do some sleight-of-hand to correct my...

Back in 1995 I quit my first ad-agency job in a misguided and financially irresponsible attempt to make a living writing freelance...