Following the publication of Horse Bite in 2011, I began writing about Seattle music for the now defunct Seattle Subsonic. One night after seeing the ever so awesome Furniture Girls at the Sunset Tavern, there was a party afterward where singer Stacey Meyer told me she’d love to see a collection of my music writing in book form. I thought about it for a moment, sipped my beer, “Sure, thanks. Maybe I’ll give it a shot.” We clinked bottles, and the conversation went on to other things then, but the idea stuck. It grew and transformed, not just a collection of my music writing, but rather a novel inspired by such, a novel woven into the music itself. And so The Music Book was born.

The collection of poetry and short prose, I Hear You Music Playing Night and Day, came along in 2021, and now I am working on a collection of short stories when not playing guitar at Bad Jimmy’s or watching soccer at the George and Dragon.