JWH

One of the minor drawbacks of publishing books independently (meaning outside the New York publishing world) is that few Indie books garner reviews. While it’s debatable that newspaper reviews have a great impact on sales, when a reviewer as perceptive and thorough as Colette Bancroft gives one of my novels the once over, I’m always

Been reading a lot during these last few months. More than usual and not just because of the pandemic. When I finished Bad Axe back in the spring, I decided to wait a while before beginning the next one. A little tired, a little unfocused, a little too much TV and Internet news. To fill

Just wanted to thank, belatedly, Lon Shapiro, of Guttman Shapiro Creative Group for his excellent work on the cover of Bad Axe as well as a knockout Book Trailer, and a complete redo and update of the website. Lon also created the covers for six of my early ebooks. I highly recommend him to any

I can’t always recall the exact starting place for each novel. Usually there are several seemingly unrelated ideas kicking around in my head for a while and some mysterious fusion occurs between them that points me toward a starting place, an opening scene perhaps, or a few lines of dialog, or just an image that

I was born on the Fourth of July, so independence was one of those multi-syllabic words I learned early. One of my most vivid memories from my youth was when I was eight or nine accompanying my dad to the courthouse in Hopkinsville, Kentucky where I grew up. He was there to check some plats

(The Florida Presbyterian College tennis team, 1968.  That’s me, kneeling, second from right.  With hair.) I started playing tennis in the early Sixties on a pitted asphalt court next to the basketball gym in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.  My buddy Bryan Lesueur and I started batting balls around one summer without any idea about how to play

I doubt that Thorn knows who the president is.  Without a TV and no sign of newspapers or magazines in his day-to-day existence, it’s unlikely he knows much about current events or pop culture.  He’s a reader of books, but even his reading habits, as far as I can tell, focus mainly on classics or

I’ve finished a draft of the new Thorn novel (#15) and, I admit, it has an odd title.  Usually I’ve opted for titles that have some nautical aspect or hint at its Florida locale.  But this time the title uses the name of a small town in Michigan, a place where some of the crucial

I’m working hard on a new Thorn novel.  A bit more than halfway through.  This one has been delayed by a couple of medical issues. First, in the fall of 2018, I decided to face the increasing arthritic pain in my right hand.  I elected to have surgery to remove the arthritic bone at the