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...

Remember a few blogs back when I talked about writers compulsively asking themselves, “What if . . .?” Beaufort’s Civil War history so...

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Previously, I explained why John Grisham need not worry about me threatening his throne as king of the mystery, thriller, suspense...

In last week’s blog I described the literary summit of three dead writers (Faulkner, Proust and Nabokov) and one very much alive writer,...

Last week I disclosed my dilemma in combining two short novels, A Southern Girl and Just a Dance, into the single story they cried out to...

A Southern Girl (ASG) began as a short novel, by word count almost a novella. It began with the infant’s abandonment as the U.S. family,...

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Last week’s blog identified three forces in Mexico that inspired me to more and hopefully better production in my writing. But motivation...

Six weeks on the road is a stretch, and when forty-three events in four states are factored in, there is only one logical question that...