Publication Day!! A rare event in any writer’s life, as all of us--no matter how prolific-- have only a finite number of books in us. The...

On Three Pines, the cotton plantation adjoining the hunting lodge which becomes Carter’s and Missma’s retreat, a family of slaves must...

Carter Barnwell, the protagonist in The Home Guard, is twelve years old when his world is turned on its head on November 7, 1861. As the...

I’m so pleased with the blurbs that will accompany the publication of The Home Guard on March 4, 2019. Here is one from the incomparable...

As discussed in the previous blog, The Home Guard opens when Carter Barnwell and his grandmother “Missma” escape to the family hunting...

A central character in The Home Guard is Martha “Missma” Gibbes Barnwell, Carter Barnwell’s eighty year old grandmother. It is, after...

William Faulkner famously said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” We in the South may have a greater appreciation for that...

In my prior blog, I wrote about inspiration. Today, the subject is plot. The Home Guard, a Novel of the Civil War, is a coming-of-age...

First, a writer must be inspired. Publication of The Home Guard, a Novel of the Civil War, marks the end of a nine year effort to...

Unless you attended The Citadel, VMI, or one of the service academies, your college experience was radically different. To learn what...