Ash & Creed Press exists because we believe people are hungry for literature that honors complexity.
I’ve written a lot over the years—novels, a self-help relationship book, an illustrated kids book, a best-seller book about childhood recollections, plenty of published plays, and stories that wander into the odd corners of human behavior. If you look me up on Amazon, you’ll find book titles like A Kid Grows in Brooklyn; Tyrus Carson’s Ride; I’m Wrong. I’m Sorry. I Love You, and Barnaby Brain. Most of my work leans toward humor, because that’s how I make sense of the world. People are funny. Life is funny. And if you pay attention long enough, you’ll see that even the serious moments have a comic edge.
The Billy Chronicles grew out of that same instinct. Read more …
Our hope is that these forty questions help you hear Jesus’s voice in a fresh way—not as a lecturer, but as a guide who meets you where you are.
With a scarcity of Black voices like James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Spike Lee, white writers and directors from the earliest media productions took it upon themselves to represent Black people.
Both in my boyhood and now, St. Louis can be a racial pressure cooker, and people shouldn’t be surprised when the lid blows.
I want to believe I grew up in an unprejudiced family, but I know it’s not true. My mother and aunts, when they spoke about Black people at all, tried to be charitable, but they also were patronizing. “They’re good people,” they’d say, or, “The ones we knew in Arkansas were always good to us.”
I’ve written a lot over the years—novels, a self-help relationship book, an illustrated kids book, a best-seller book about childhood recollections, plenty of published plays, and stories that wander into the odd corners of human behavior. If you look me up on Amazon, you’ll find book titles like A Kid Grows in Brooklyn; Tyrus Carson’s Ride; I’m Wrong. I’m Sorry. I Love You, and Barnaby Brain. Most of my work leans toward humor, because that’s how I make sense of the world. People are funny. Life is funny. And if you pay attention long enough, you’ll see that even the serious moments have a comic edge.
The Billy Chronicles grew out of that same instinct. Read more …