For My Fiction
When I see authors on social media moaning over how their family doesn’t want read their books, I find I can only smile.
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All The Stories Yet To Be Written
I don’t think I would have written any of my books as I had if we had not built that house. Spending so much time there after, something about the area drew me into wanting to write about it.
Read MoreA “Relation Spéciale”?
It is no secret that this US president evokes wildly negative feelings in many. [Full disclosure: I did not vote for him.]
Read More“That an author, in possession of a completed novel…”
I find one of the “sneaky” joys in fiction writing is basing characters, or important aspects of them, on living (or once living) people and only you know who he or she “really” is.
Read MoreSnapshots
I do not agree with the increasingly common assertion that adult readers “need to see themselves” in a character in order to be interested in a book. In fact, I believe rather the opposite.
Read MoreThe Triangular Alliance
My wife also laughs to family and friends, “It’s a bit of a weird feeling being English and visiting George Washington’s or Thomas Jefferson’s house.”
Read More“All for one, one for all”
I envy someone reading it for the first time.
Read MoreOur Always Imperfect World
As was the case for most of those who came before us (such as those “1787” fictional people above), most of us wish merely to live our lives in peace amongst our families and friends.
Read MoreThose Immortal Letters Of Transit, Signed By…
But does he really say “de Gaulle?” Lorre there is hard to understand. It does sound as if he says “de Gaulle,” but he somewhat mumbles.
Read MoreAt “5 o’clock in the mornings”
At “5 o’clock in the mornings” thinking and typing sessions at my PC over in the Catskills, in upstate New York, I began outlining and producing a travel/students/Europe/romance story…
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