I started The Devil Makes Three because I am regularly frustrated by conventional “wisdom,” which is often wrong or misguided upon inspection. Starting with writing essays, I then began recording podcasts with the hope of cultivating an audience that was hungry to dive more deeply into issues of social, political, and cultural significance. Then in January of this year, one of my best friends died of cancer. Like me, he was 42 years old.
And to be frank, his passing fucked me up a bit. I just couldn’t give a damn about the stupid ideas floating around in other peoples’ heads.
As a day job, I have spent the last two years working as an investigative journalist and producer for the podcast series, After the Uprising. If you like true crime, go take a listen, it’s a great show and I’m very proud of it.
Having completed my work on this season of After the Uprising, I am now trying to focus on what truly matters to me; being a good father and husband, and fiction writing. My first novel, "A Ballroom for Ghost Dancing", published in 2022, was inspired by the death of one of my other young friends, and it focused on grief and how to find joy in living after loss. My forthcoming novel, “Where When It Rains,” which I hope to see released this December, is about the internal struggle between our higher and lower selves as we confront the cruelty of time. I have started my own independent publishing company, Picket Fire Press, to not only publish my work, but to publish great books by other writers who prize literature, but who do not have the connections or access to be coronated by the Big Five.
Perhaps in time, I will be called back by some great issue, but for now, I’m walking away from the “mind-changing” game. Others are better at it than I am, anyway.