Life as a Full-Time Writer

As of this morning, Legacy - A Unique Novel Writing Experience launched on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and TuneIn.  This is a podcast written, produced, and hosted by myself along with my wife, the beautiful and talented Helene Drago.  We're both very ​excited about it.

The subject of the podcast is the book I'm currently writing on with my father, Tony Drago, who passed away in 1992.  If that sentence intrigues you and you'd like to know more, please check out the Current Project page for all the details.

The first episode, called "The Drago Tapes," is up and waiting for you!  I really hope you check it out.  It's only twenty minutes long, so it won't take too much of our time.  And, if you like it, give us a 5-star rating on whatever app or platform you use for podcast listening.  It's a simple gesture, but one that really helps us get the word out!

New episodes will follow every two weeks.  If you're interested in writing, especially fiction or novel writing, then this podcast is definitely for you!

But Legacy's launch signals more than just the birth of the podcast.  It's part of a broader effort to reach my goals as a full-time working writer.  In addition to my father's book, I have an YA SF novel called Torq coming out sometime in the next month or two, and yet another book currently being reviewed by my agent.

In addition, I'll be teaching an adult writing class this Fall in Haddonfield, NJ.  It'll be a fantastic experience!  If you're local to South Jersey and interested in learning how to write and publish what you write, check out the Haddonfield Adult School Fall Brochure!

Also, I've taken a very part-time job teaching chess to school kids!  This one isn't related to writing, per se.  But I'm really looking forward to it starting up in early September.

Finally, and perhaps most significantly, I'm starting on a school tour this Fall and Spring to promote Torq.  In just a couple of weeks, I'll be reaching out to thousands of teachers, librarians, and administrators at hundreds of middle and elementary schools in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.  As many of you may know, this isn't the first time I've done this. My previous tours have sent me to more than sixty schools in six states, where I did presentations and conducted workshops for close to seventy thousand kids!  This time, however, I'll pulling out all the stops.  Let's see if I can top the one hundred thousand mark!

If you'd like to talk about my visiting your school, check out the School Tour page!

And, as a final note, I'm going to be blogging regularly from now on.  Expect to see blog posts on this site every Thursday.

Exciting times are coming!

- Ty

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