Recent Letters
Writing in the Shadows is a sanctuary for the creative, the curious, the scrappy independent.
Every Thursday, get a free letter on what it means to live what David Lynch called The Art Life. Honest dispatches from a working writer who'd rather ask the big questions than follow someone else's formula.
In the Apple documentary Mr. Scorsese, Isabella Rossellini tells a story about her marriage to Martin Scorsese. Walking through Central Park in silence, she eventually asked what he was thinking. He said: What does it mean to be alive? What's our purpose? What's our relationship with God? Then he asked what she was thinking about. She said she was wondering what to have for lunch.
I'm Scorsese.
I've written over twenty novels across horror, thriller, romance and YA. I teach creative writing in schools, colleges, prisons and online. But underneath all of it, the question is always the same one. What does it mean to be alive? What do we do with the time we have?