Well hello and welcome to my website.

I’m a writer living in San Francisco.

My first novel, GOING TO SEE THE ELEPHANT, will be published by Bantam Dell, a division of Random House in late 2008.

To find out more details about the book, including official publication date, how to request me for a reading, and how to get a signed copy, sign up for my quarterly email update by clicking here.

To read more about my background, click on the “About Me” tab above.

To read other essays or articles check out the “Featured Stories” on the right hand column or the archives.

You can reach me at: rodesmail@gmail.com

Writers are Weird

There, I’ve said it.

Very few other people in the world have the patience, discipline, and flat out strangeness to sit alone for hours at a time in order to live in their heads.

Do you realize there’s an entire category of people in the world who have never lived in their heads? Even for a moment? These are called politicians and they are doing the best they can.

By the way, there’s a great song by Lyle Lovett called, “I Live in My Own Mind” which sounds like his ode to weird writer’s everywhere… here’s a video of him singing that song.

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