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COMING IN 2021: Capture The Cause

Capture The Cause

Tomorrow The Grace

Carolina: “Ambition and war and vices are always with us. He was most correct only about the fall of empires. This Bonaparte’s must be next.”

Tomorrow The Grace

Conventions: The Garden At Paris

Robert: “My friend who wrote that letter, he’s passed eighty now. When I was in Paris fifty years ago, where I met him, he loved her dearly. And, oh, Nancy, how she loved him…”

Conventions: The Garden At Paris

Trilogy [Paperback]: Passports, Frontiers, Distances: The Three Novels in One Volume (2018 Compilation)

Béatrice: “We will all of us have a drink to everyone we remember and love.”

Trilogy

Distances: Atlantic Lives, 1996-1997 (Book 3)

Bill: “Fiction comes from fact, and lots of fact makes great fiction when you re-write it as fiction.”

Distances: Atlantic Lives, 1996-1997

Frontiers: Atlantic Lives, 1995-1996 (Book 2)

Valérie: “Because you are born on a farm, this does not make you a horse!”

Frontiers: Atlantic Lives, 1995-1996

Passports: Atlantic Lives, 1994-1995 (Book 1)

Isabelle: “I’ll set the table… This is better than a restaurant. Oh, and by when I leave… I expect you will have told me all about General de Gaulle also.”

Passports: Atlantic Lives, 1994-1995

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If You Are Home, Too (Again)… Hello!

General5 Jan 20215 Jan 2021

It appears there will be lots more STAY HOME viewing as a new national anti-COVID “lockdown” is in force across the U.K. again.. Netflix, etc., are fine. But social media will again also be where we might turn for some interaction.

Read more "If You Are Home, Too (Again)… Hello!"

“Norma” And “Louise”

General3 Jan 20213 Jan 2021

The Chaperone is a reasonably entertaining film and a decent way to pass 1 hour and 50 minutes in the pandemic. However, if you want to LEARN about the real Louise Brooks and of the history of that time please read a history book…

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Winding Down Another Year

Capture The Cause General31 Dec 202031 Dec 2020

The major reason I am a writer is my (now late) uncle (a crime novelist who died in 2015) urged me to give it a go. I would never have had the courage to do so if not for him.

Back in the 1990s he began to get on at me to write a novel…

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That Mis-Imagined Era

General28 Dec 202030 Dec 2020

It is a clichéd and frenzied near-panto that reminded me often of a high school stage production that is always moments from turning into a “Saturday Night Live” skit. For an hour, I sat there stunned: I could NOT understand the praise for it.

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“I cannot wait to see you again”

General23 Dec 202023 Dec 2020

Yes, we have FaceTime and such; but in terms of in person contact we may be now in much the same position as they were in “1799.”

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If This Is Your Worst Of Times

General20 Dec 202020 Dec 2020

This may be a difficult season of the year for many even in good times. However, 2020 is perhaps the worst Christmas season in decades. For many more people than usual it is indeed the absolute worst Christmas of their lives.

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On Page One

Capture The Cause General18 Dec 202018 Dec 2020

Poland will play a part in the story. But I am saying no more here right now. 😉

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When Words Will Not Do

General15 Dec 202015 Dec 2020

Underneath language differences we are all basically the same. Wordless photography on Instagram can help remind us of that fact.

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From “Self-Isolation”

Capture The Cause General13 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

We flew back here to London on Friday evening. We are now re-acclimating time-zone-wise. However, we cannot go out for 10 days.

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This Winter Of Disarray

General8 Dec 20208 Dec 2020

What the hell has happened? Many in the country are clearly fearful of innovation, fearful of the future, indeed seemingly fearful of EVERYTHING they do not immediately understand.

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Who “Are” They? (Part II)

General5 Dec 20206 Dec 2020

As promised at the end of the previous post: several of the historical men… and their fictional influences.

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Who “Are” They?

General2 Dec 20205 Dec 2020

Real women in history have a major impact on my writing – in fictionalization. For that is the nature of writing fiction: I believe all fictionalization is invariably sourced – even subconsciously – from real people a writer has, in some way, shape, or form, bumped into somewhere in life.

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The (Endlessly Evolving) American

General29 Nov 202025 Dec 2020

We have always had trouble defining with precision what makes an American; but that is actually not a bad thing because that creates a flexibility about boundaries and allows the identity more easily to evolve.

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Hurdles Of Pandemic Travel

General22 Nov 202022 Nov 2020

Hello! I know I have been quiet this past week. Let me explain: We are in New York, in the Catskills, at our house here, and have just completed a “mini-quarantine” under New York anti-Covid guidelines for arriving travelers.

Read more "Hurdles Of Pandemic Travel"

Words Written

General10 Nov 202012 Nov 2020

I do not expect, or even hope…

…to be able to please every reader.

And I do not count words as I write.

Read more "Words Written"

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