Blog & News for Award Winning Author John Warley

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...

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Last week’s blog mentioned some challenges presented by Mexico that required adaptation. For me, the challenge above all others was to...

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Last week I wrote about our move to Mexico in 1993, a move that promised to give me the time to write the next novel at hours later than...

When I left you last week I was on the cusp of literary stardom with my first novel, Bethesda’s Child. I had what I had been assured was...

In last week’s blog, a Wizard in the form of my youngest son, Carter, helped me take the first step along the road I am still traveling....

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Last week I wrote about the attrition of the spirit I felt after eighteen years in the legal arena, butting heads with judges, opposing...

My writing life began with a short story I wrote in 1990 called The Dare on the Bridge. The bridge, in case you’re curious, is the...