FRANKLYN C. THOMAS

The site is celebrating its first birthday! Woohoo! I thank all of you who have visited in the last year in support of this experiment...

Thanks to my trusty Netflix subscription, I have access to lots of great TV, past, and present, to help me on my night shifts when...

Wait, when does it become too late to say that? For argument’s sake, let’s say anytime in January you see someone for the first time,...

An endorsement by—and a comparison to—one of my favorite authors was enough to make me snatch The Everything Box from the discount bin. ...

In October, I saw a flyer for an event at a local high school, where Andy Weir would promote Artemis, his second published novel.  It was...

Take one part slave narrative, mix with one part contemporary social commentary, and mix with a dash of metaphor, taken literally, and...

In retrospect, I may have slipped up. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. While that sounds like a great first line to some...

At the suggestion of someone whose opinion I value, I’m attempting NaNoWriMo this year for the second time. Oh, jeez. There’s some...

Hey all, it’s catch-up time once again! The last month and change have been pretty productive, so it’ll be good to give you guys an...

I turned 39 last week. Birthdays never cease to amaze me; I just keep getting older. It’s such a trip. When I was young, various people...

I’m not normally a summer writer. Historically, June, July, and August are slow months for that, likely a carryover from the days when I...

With what happened in Charlottesville, a progress report seems... inappropriate.

In a previous post, I interviewed a character from one of my novels, Kayla Dane from The Favorite, and asked her about her life after the...

The last day of my trip home

Thanks to Facebook, I stumbled across a post from my old blog Under The Sun, where I talk about my grandmother. I'm going to share it...

A quick check as to what's going on with my writing.

Every year, it seems, I read a book that sucks me in and makes me take notice. It makes me power through it despite fatigue, work, other...

So I’m in a bit of a jam. I want to write about what’s going on in the world, but how do I do so without being political about it? It’s...

I went to bed with a plan: wake up, go for a run, hit the gym, work on some writing, run a few errands, and go to a movie later. It...

Hey there! Thanks for stopping in to authorfranklynthomas.com, my new Official Author Site! I decided it was time to take the writing...