Blog & News for Award Winning Author John Warley

Along with many of you, I'm mourning the death of Jimmy Buffett. As a card-carrying Parrot Head, I've been playing his music constantly...

Most books fall into a particular literary genre, and Jury of One is no exception. It was an easy call to designate it as a “legal...

Seeking your Thoughts on Jury of One and Discussion

Publication Days never get old because, unlike Christmas, they don’t show up once a year, at least for me. More like Leap Years. But I’m...

The move from Virginia to Beaufort, discussed in my last blog, brought many changes. Almost all were positive. One change I never...

In my previous blog, I discussed a relocation from Virginia to South Carolina in 2005. The reasons for the move seemed fully justified by...

An essential element of the plot of Jury of One is Judge Dan Borders’s innovative and controversial proposal to allow convicted felons,...

Publication Day!! A rare event in any writer’s life, as all of us--no matter how prolific-- have only a finite number of books in us. The...

On Three Pines, the cotton plantation adjoining the hunting lodge which becomes Carter’s and Missma’s retreat, a family of slaves must...

Carter Barnwell, the protagonist in The Home Guard, is twelve years old when his world is turned on its head on November 7, 1861. As the...

I’m so pleased with the blurbs that will accompany the publication of The Home Guard on March 4, 2019. Here is one from the incomparable...

As discussed in the previous blog, The Home Guard opens when Carter Barnwell and his grandmother “Missma” escape to the family hunting...

A central character in The Home Guard is Martha “Missma” Gibbes Barnwell, Carter Barnwell’s eighty year old grandmother. It is, after...

William Faulkner famously said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” We in the South may have a greater appreciation for that...

In my prior blog, I wrote about inspiration. Today, the subject is plot. The Home Guard, a Novel of the Civil War, is a coming-of-age...

First, a writer must be inspired. Publication of The Home Guard, a Novel of the Civil War, marks the end of a nine year effort to...

Unless you attended The Citadel, VMI, or one of the service academies, your college experience was radically different. To learn what...

Every writer has milestones by which they measure success. Certainly, that first “yes” from an agent or publisher is one. Holding your...

On Friday, October 27, 2017, The Citadel's Class of 1967, my class, will gather in Charleston for our fiftieth reunion. As our legacy...

The photo was taken by my daughter, MaryBeth Warley Lockwood, at Point Loma in San Diego on a recent visit. My hands are raised. Is that...