Author: Paul J. Hoffman

Paul J. Hoffman is a career journalist who gave up that career in September 2019 to write full-time. Then he bought a publishing company, PathBinder Publishing LLC. He has two nonfiction books published: "Murder in Wauwatosa: The Mysterious Death of Buddy Schumacher," and "Wicked Columbus, Indiana." He is working on his third book, "First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Indiana: 200 Years," due out Summer 2024. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin, is a graduate of Wauwatosa East High School and earned a bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee in Mass Communications. His journalism experience includes working as a sports writer at the Milwaukee Sentinel, assistant sports editor at Pioneer Press newspapers in the Chicago area, sports editor and news editor in Shelbyville, Indiana, and as a special publications editor at the Daily Journal in Franklin and Columbus, Indiana. He's been active in community theater, and starred in a production of Kalamazoo at Willow Leaves of Hope in Hope, Indiana, in 2023. He has run for city council and county council and is active with First Presbyterian Church. He lives in Columbus, Indiana, with his wife, Kimberly S. Hoffman, who is also an author. He has three daughters, a son, two stepdaughters, and a granddaughter.

Researching nonfiction and turning it into fiction

I had a great time with some great folks at AllWriters Workplace & Workshop in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on July 18. I was honored to be asked by director and founder Kathie Giorgio to teach a class there during one of the Celebrity Saturdays. Apparently, I'm some celebrity or something ... a minor one I'm sure. The... Continue Reading →

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Screenplay update – The beginning and ending start to unfold

Learning how to write a screenplay, then fitting my story into the format, is fascinating. I haven't actually started putting any text into the fancy screenplay-writing software I purchased yet. But, I've been going over the parts of the Syd Field book, "Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting" that I marked up in yellow highlighter, and... Continue Reading →

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Featured author in Pen It! Magazine

I am honored to have been chosen as the featured author for the March/April 2015 issue of Pen It! Magazine. The magazine is in its sixth year and is produced by Debi Stanton, based in southern Indiana. Debi recently invited me to speak on researching for nonfiction books at her Spring Writers Conference, conducted at... Continue Reading →

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Can cozies, bottle openers and stress balls … oh, my!

I picked up a few marketing items the other day. Ordered myself a couple of stress balls that are really more of rounded-off stress cubes featuring the cover of my book, "Murder in Wauwatosa: The Mysterious Death of Buddy Schumacher," on one face. Also got some bottle openers emblazoned with my website, http://www.PaulHoffmanAuthor.com. And finally, some... Continue Reading →

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Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? – Breaking down barriers that prevent us from understanding each other

There has pretty much always been fear on this planet, the offshoots of which are greed, anger, hatred and It occurs to me that many people on this planet are getting angrier with each other. Some of the fear we feel come from misunderstandings with other people. I took a class in college that addressed... Continue Reading →

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Variety of topics on tap at writers conference; and I’ll be presenting one of them

I'm thrilled to have been asked to give a presentation at the Spring Writers in Columbus, Indiana, on April 25. The conference will be held at the YES Cinema, 328 Jackson St., and will feature four speakers. Besides my talk, entitled "Researching Non-Fiction:  From personal interviews to document discovery," the other topics presented will be "Breathing... Continue Reading →

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