Searching for the Ghost
Darren CoolsWriter, illustrator, designer.
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An ode to summer reading challenges
When I was 13, my family lived about 10 miles outside of a very small town, population 800 or so. Our country farmhouse was big-ish, old-ish (1905), and usually calm, shadowy, quiet. You couldn’t see another house in any direction, even fro...
Can I show you my book?
I thought that I wouldn’t be able to find words when first I stared down at the small cardboard package in the my hands, about to reveal the fully designed, physical embodiment of years of work, doubt, hope, critique, trying again…
I’m ove...
The thing is . . .
Awkward as it sounds, I mean it. I really do want to be reduced to tears...
Finding meaning is a phrase that’s been on my mind and part of conversation a lot lately. I’m entering the second half of my life, and now, more than trying establ...
Beginning (again)
In 2016, I retired my old blog (where I’d been writing silly, over-earnest posts since 2004) and started a new one on my portfolio website. I intended to write regularly, a mix of reflections, short essays, and writing exercises; maybe even...
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Writer, illustrator, designer. Light in the Canyon, my debut young adult novel, arrives summer '26 from Slant Books. Searching for the ghost.
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