The Oyster Queen

The Oyster Queen

In the first half of 2016, I wrote a book called Shuckr about a time-traveling oyster bar in NYC. It was a fun, but somewhat angsty book about a disgruntled and very drunk thirty-year-old guy who finds his way into the secret bar one night after a bender. I worked...
Portraits of Alice

Portraits of Alice

Last week I published my fourth book under Ben Goodwin, and it's a novel (literary/contemporary fiction) I've been working on for a long time. I'm proud of it, and looking forward to seeing where it goes. It follows Alice, who is forty, married, and a painter, from...
Pictures and Prose

Pictures and Prose

A few months ago I started an account over at Medium to share things that didn't really fit anywhere else. I have a few personal stories about family and growing up along with a challenging piece about living with severe pain for two weeks. And of course, I also write...
The Aanensen’s, a client for over 10 years

The Aanensen’s, a client for over 10 years

The Aanensens were one of my first clients back when I was a partner at Graphyte Design. They found us through one of those old listings that were so popular on the internet in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, but once we sat down with them we realized we were a great...
Book Proposals

Book Proposals

Books are hard not to love, and it’s even harder not to fall for a beautiful one. And a beautiful book starts with a beautiful proposal. You have to show not only how compelling the book will be to one’s wallet, but also, to one’s mind and heart. Over the last few...
Web Design

Web Design

When I first started making websites I coded them by hand in HTML and CSS, often in a text editor like BBEdit. And I liked it. I enjoyed seeing my code visualized on a page, and I enjoyed creating new things over and over again. I mostly do front end design now,...