Batwing
Thursday, November 4, 2021 Dear Grandaddy: I’m writing this on your typewriter which I inherited from you. I just had it cleaned professionally and the man who did the work gave me some information about the machine. It’s exactly one
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, Under Cover of Daylight, one
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.) Books: We got hooked on a
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. During my forty-year university teaching career I taught a course in Hemingway a
Review of Bad Axe
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
Pandemic Reading
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
Gratitude
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
Johnston Atoll
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,
