My bottom line is what you as a reader who has purchased one or more of my books do after having done so is ENTIRELY your business.
Reviews Of “Greatness”
“Adèle de Sénange”
This is what may happen as you research to write: I had not examined it before and was looking through the book seeking some more background that might be of use for my own new manuscript. I got drawn in…
Dining Out
Despite America’s British colonial heritage, the US doesn’t truly have a pub direct equivalent.
Musings On Muses
From the start of my blog here, I have been honest as to where I get lots of my books’ material. It’s not usually just off the top of my head. Indeed is entirely making anything up even, honestly, really possible?
A Bunch Of Characters
If you think I’m going to be revealing any of the real-life people I know who may be the basis for, or whom I drew upon for, the fictional characters? I won’t be doing that anytime soon. (Do I appear to be completely insane?)
“You are not really in the 13th Vermont regiment!”
If history never stands still, neither does how we remember it…
Memoirs Of A Life And Writings
Georgian English writers, and their American counterparts, loved to use elongated, and complicated, often windy, paragraphs, and had a habit, of employing commas, all over the place.
“Mrs. Rutherford, I hope you find life here as you expected?
Did you ever want to meet George Washington? That’s obviously not possible… and that’s why there are novels…
“One of my favorite Psalms…”
Theodore Roosevelt once wrote that if someone is “not familiar with the Bible, he has suffered a loss.” For an author, that is doubly true.
Summertime
And if Amazon can bury us all in Prime Day emails and ads…
Our Friends’ Views
Macmillan, British Prime Minister from 1957-1963, once remarked that he felt he had to contend with two types of “anti-Britishness” among Americans, and especially among US officials…
Twenty-Three Years Ago
Twenty-three years ago this morning, July 14, 1995 (yes, yes, that was indeed before some of you were born), in Paris I was standing along the Champs Elysées…
Out To The Ball Game
Cricket and baseball may have evolved from the same source(s), but they are now distinctive games and are in fact national cultural emblems of sorts.
My 500 To 700
I never outright count words, but based on my experience I would say a good start is just give yourself a recurring and rational goal you feel you can reach: “I’ll get a decent page done daily.”
The 2018 National Birthday
What Americans celebrate today is not national perfection, but independence as a nation-state.
