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June 26, 2022

Close Encounters of the Hollywood Kind, part 3

“Nobody Knows Anything”  William Goldman, Academy Award Winning Screenwriter ACT 1. PAVLOV  I […]
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June 21, 2022

Close Encounters of the Hollywood Kind, Part 2

TOO MUCH LIKE THE BOOK My third novel, Bones of Coral, got good reviews, sold moderately well, and was optioned […]
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June 15, 2022

Close Encounters of the Hollywood Kind

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June 6, 2022

Publishing for 50 Years–Part One, Apprentice

Poems, short stories, articles, op-eds, novels. […]
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May 25, 2022

Pandemic Fiction

Two years. That's how long I lived with Thorn as he wrestled with the dangers he faced in Trickster. During the last […]
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May 9, 2022

Racing to the End

I've got a few more pages to go. There's a sadness growing in my chest that's familiar. I don't want this to end, but I'm ready for it to end too. I remember that Abraham Maslow, […]
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October 8, 2021

Thorn’s House

Back in the early eighties when I was first living full time in Key Largo, I found the place so exotically beautiful that as I began to write that first novel set in the Keys, […]
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August 30, 2021

What I’ve Been Up To Lately

Been reading a lot and watching a bit of TV in the evening when the eyes are tired. (And of course I've been chasing the cursor across the blank page. More on that later.) […]
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May 18, 2021

An Interview from the Distant Past

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May 13, 2021

Hemingway

The recent Ken Burns documentary on Hemingway (three-part series on PBS) was a fascinating reminder of the power that a single writer had on shaping American literature. […]
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