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Stayin’ Alive Check out this crazy ass cover of Stayin’ Alive I made. YEAH!

I just released a new completely insane episode of the Ace Tucker Space Trucker audio fiction podcast. This time, Ace and Ivan are bored and decide to watch their favorite crappy sitcom, Oh Kevin! The episode is available at all the usual podcast places, but for added fun, I videoed Read more…

This morning, I banged out 1758 words this morning while walking and talking. Good times. I’m approaching the midpoint of this first draft of Ace Tucker Space Trucker 3. This is my third full-length novel, and I’m still figuring this stuff out. But I do think this whole dictation-while-walking-on-a treadmill-thing Read more…

Are you sitting down? I know I am even though I don’t want to be. The older I get, the more I’ve come to realize that humans are not designed to sit at a desk all day and stare at computer screens. Don’t worry, the irony is not lost on Read more…

This is Waffle House’s 1999 compilation “Waffle House: Jukebox Favorites Vol. 1” in its entirety — a collection of original tracks for Waffle House jukeboxes, written by Buckner & Garcia (of “Pac Man Fever” fame) and featuring gospel singer Mary Welch Rogers, then-wife of Waffle House’s co-founder, Joe Rogers Sr.

That’s right, kids. The third Ace Tucker novel will take place in the far-away time of 1999!!! Stay tuned for annoying updates about me plotting, drafting, writing, editing, and publishing “Ace Tucker Space Trucker 3: ACE 1999!” 🤘💪🔥🌮🎈🎉 Ace Tucker Space Trucker 2 has been sent off to my editor, Read more…

Brand new Christmas special is out today! Wanna listen to Elvis sing Ebenezer Scrooge some “traditional” Christmas songs? How about the whole gang sing a punk rock cover of We Wish You a Merry Christmas? You can do both. NOW. 

Yeah man. I finished it. The first draft of “Ace Tucker Space Trucker 2: The Wrath of Ace!”It came in a little light at 68, 490 words, but this draft is DONEZO!Now I’m going to let it sit and stew for a week or two and work on other stuff. Read more…

50k, YO!!!!!!! I have never written so much so fast before. Daaaang, y’all. 50,920 words in 19 days. That’s definitely a Jimmy record. I chalk up this output to1) Planning, i.e. having a passable outline. Boy, has Scapple helped with that!2) Getting up early and getting right into motion! Moving Read more…

Here were are, almost midpoint in November and if you’re like me, you haven’t shaved since October. Say what? Read on for a meandering explanation. I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year. For non-writers, that’s National Novel Writing Month, a month-long worldwide collective adventure in mashing words on a page in an Read more…