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Rootbound: a Novella

Robert Houseman believed he had left his past behind—util it showed up on his doorstep in the form of Carla…

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Journey through the Shadowlands: a Middle-Grade Fantasy Novel

Journey through the Shadowlands, published by Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, is a middle-grade fantasy novel with a social conscience, following…

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Family Ties: a Novel

Finders, Losers A lakeside cabin in the Sierra foothills, a canyon village divided between old coots and laid-back hippies, and…

Distance Learning

2 Jul 201714 Jul 2017

Gina and I recently received a letter from my friend and colleague Kent Peterson, who lives in Eugene, Oregon. I mean mechanically received a letter, on paper, generated by a…

Say What You Mean

28 Jun 201730 Jun 2017

Since I grew up with an engineer, I am practiced in the dark art of taking things literally. This held me back in the early days of my writing; since…

Performance Anxiety: The Power of Words…and the Words of Power

25 Jun 20174 Jul 2017

I read an article this morning, a marvelously foul-mouthed rant on Southern sociopolitical hypocrisy, part of which I read aloud to my wife. The interesting point to me was that,…

When Good Writing Goes Bad

23 Jun 201724 Jun 2017

Writing is one of the worst things you can do as a novelist, if you love it too much. This is especially so, I suspect, for those of us--and that…

Official First Post

21 Jun 201724 Jun 2017

I suppose that it's now incumbent upon me to scribe the obligatory First Post, introducing myself to the alleged visitors of this website. I have been blogging pretty much since…