I’ve spent the last week looking over galleys of my novel, The Unremarkable Squire. This stage of publication is a strange one for me. First, I start over-analyzing all my sentences. Is this really the best word here? (Never mind I’ve asked…
Being a (Christian) Artist
June 6, 2013 | 2 Comments
Well, this has been a sad, sad website lately. Poor, neglected website…forgive me? The trick with keeping up this website is that I have lots of other commitments that are more pressing than entertaining some fictitious audience. (Wait, what? Real…
The Long Version, Please
April 24, 2013 | 4 Comments
I don’t like abridged books. Yes, I understand the unabridged Les Miserables is nearly 1500 pages, and Victor Hugo spends 50+ pages setting up the Bishop who gives Jean Valjean the candlesticks–a scene the movie/play does in 5 minutes flat. Yes, I…
As I was teaching the fine art of interviewing and newswriting to my middle school students, I had them mock interview me about my upcoming book The Unremarkable Squire. One of the students asked an interesting question: “Why isn’t the book…
Things I Learned from “The Illustrated Man”
April 2, 2013 | 3 Comments
I recently read Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, a collection of 19 short stories written as only Bradbury can write them. I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned, in no particular order. Space is full of wonder, and…
Christians Have A Word
March 29, 2013 | 1 Comments
Fallen A euphemism for the world. Why not Shattered?: The mirror of God Smashed by His reflection, Lacerating Man, His hand. I know it here, blindly— In the foreign streetlights, The yellow line in headlights, Tired, with hours behind, Dead…
Children of the Wells – Coming Soon!
March 16, 2013 | 1 Comments
I’ve always been fascinated with serialized, multi-author projects. Back in 2005-2006, I helped organize The Story Project, a two-year, multi-author project consisting of the fictional blogs of 13 characters as their lives intertwined in a New England mansion. A few…
What’s Happening Behind the Scenes
March 1, 2013 | 0 Comments
My website’s been pretty quiet lately, and I apologize for that. It’s because I’ve been busy on projects and tasks that you’ll see soon. Here are a few of them. The Unremarkable Squire I’ve spent my daily writing time lately…
When scientists stumble across the perfectly preserved body of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the first question is: How? But as one scientist spends his life studying the extraterrestrial crystals that caused its preservation, his questions become deeper, touching his deepest fears…
Summary: Vienna is a small Midwestern town like a hundred others, but if you look closely, it has its stories. Collected here are five stories from Vienna, where ordinary people encounter the big questions of life. In “Transitions,” a young man…
Summary: Nick Hayden presents a print version of his first 50 flash fictions as originally published at www.worksofnick.com. Along with the original stories, this book contains new author notes on the processes and ideas that helped in the creation of 50…
Summary: Nick Hayden presents a collection of five of his favorite short stories. Holding the collection together is a sense of wonder, desire, and mystery–a sense that something exists that we haven’t quite found yet. Features the Stories: The Memory – It…
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