Tao of J.T. is the online blog of New York Times bestselling author and EMMY-award winning television host J.T. Ellison.
My yoga instructor constantly reminds me that how you do yoga is how you live your life.
She generally makes this casual statement when I'm knee deep in a difficult pose, gritting my teeth, forgetting my breath, unwilling to admit I'm killing myself trying to stay in the pose. There's a rule for when this happens - you're supposed to drop out of the pose and take rest in child's pose.
But to me, that would be admitting failure.
Read MoreA man’s joys are always transient, and since men devote themselves to pleasure, seeking after happiness, they undergo birth and decay.
The Buddha
I'm in a really happy place right now. I'm happy with my career, with my creative output. I've been blessed with the ability and resources to renovate some of the things I don't like in my house. I have a wonderful marriage, great friends, and a loving family. It's almost too good to be true, so I am trying to be very careful, very aware, of how nice things are right now. Because, as you know, life changes on a dime. It's a day to day kind of existence, whether we want it to be or not.
Read MoreA compilation of the music that inspired me whilst I wrote EDGE OF BLACK.
Read MoreToday's the day! Edge of Black is on sale in all formats - paper, ebook and audio.
There is nothing more exciting that release day. After all the work, the labor, the pain and the joy, your story is no longer your own. It belongs to the reader. It belongs to you.
Stephen King's glorious book ON WRITING tells of a somewhat supernatural contract between writer and reader, a kind of ESP that exists because the writer puts the words on paper and the reader reads said words and a psychic connection is formed between the two entities. Cool, huh? He writes in one time and space, and the reader is able to read his mind regardless of their plane of existence, simply by reading the words.
Read MorePeople always ask what was my favorite book to write. And I always reply, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, the one I just finished. Which stands to reason, considering I've lived, breathed and slept the story for the previous four months to a year, depending.
EDGE OF BLACK, though, was the fastest book I've ever written, clouded by the severe illness and ultimate death of my writing companion, Jade, AKA Thrillercat.
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