2025 End of Year Update:

Website is a bit of a technical mess after a recent software update. Fun timing while I’m mostly offline at the moment. If you sent a message via my contact form in June or July, it’s possible I didn’t receive it.

Will aim to sort it all out and get back online regularly in early 2026, and I expect to be more open to new opportunities (acting or writing) around then as well. Probably not heading back to Twitter anytime soon. Blue Sky or maybe Instagram more likely.

Thanks for your patience. Take care of yourselves and each other.

– Alex

After he got his wish to become a real boy, Pinocchio wanted what every real boy wanted:

To be trained by ninjas.

“In this funny sendup of the classic fairy tale, Pinocchio, having been made a boy, wants one more thing: to be made a ninja. Pinocchio hangs out at the mall, where a bully convinces him that ninja mastery can be had–at a price. The story sharply outlines the oddity of pre-pubescent boys’ fixations (ninjas, zombies, petty theft and bra straps), and its playful blend of realism and fantasy is just right. The author has a sharp ear for dialogue and for the unusual highways and byways that adolescent conversations take. It’s a clever idea executed ably; lots of laugh-out-loud moments and off-beat humor pepper this fun, inventive romp.”

 – Publisher’s Weekly