STUFF I WRITE

Backstage Graffiti  A monthly column I write for MeridianMagazine.com. There are 105 of them so far. They're funny.

Sabbath Stories  A year's worth of weekly radio shows aired on KOSY.FM, Salt Lake City.

Poetry   Haiku through the window. (plus archive)

Lyrics   A piece about a friend dying, and what comes next. (plus archive)

Journal Bits    A moving cliché gone horribly wrong. (plus archive)

From Plays   An entire children's play!

The Love Book   The whole doggone thing.

IN PROCESS:

Two Christmas projects, the first, a novel that will serve as the basis for a musical play, called

SOPHIE'S CHRISTMAS

A Carol on Grandpa's Guitar

about a gorgeous old Martin guitar that gets pawned, and the redemption of both the guitar and the young lady who pawned it. The second is a children's book called

NO ROOM IN THE INN

based on the surmise that Joseph & Mary may not have been the only ones to arrive in Bethlehem after the "No Vacancy" signs went up.

I'm wrapping up the third (advertised as the second--I finished the third a year ago--never mind) in a series of seven historical novels for Utah fourth-graders. The action in this one spins around a slave on the 1846-47 journey of the Mormon pioneers--their journey, and his, to freedom. For now, it's called

OSCAR ON THE MORMON TRAIL