”Free at last, free at last . . .”
On Three Pines, the cotton plantation adjoining the hunting lodge which becomes Carter’s and Missma’s retreat, a family of slaves must...
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Blog & News for Award Winning Author John Warley
- Nov 27, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving!
As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, my mind is on . . . turkey? Don’t make me laugh, or even chuckle. Yes, of course I’m looking...
- Nov 21, 2014
Everybody's Got a Writer in Miami
Greetings from Miami, Florida. The title of this blog comes, of course, as a paraphrase of a Jimmy Buffett song I've always liked,...
- Oct 26, 2014
The Home Guard
Remember a few blogs back when I talked about writers compulsively asking themselves, “What if . . .?” Beaufort’s Civil War history so...
- Oct 22, 2014
Wordless Wednesday
Source #wordlesswednesday #asoutherngirl #adoption #grandchild #patconroy #photography #storyriverbooks #writing #writinggroup
- Oct 12, 2014
The Port Royal Experiment
Last week, I blogged about my Aunt Sue, who spoke to me from the grave by way of her memoir, Three Houses, the preface for which...
- Oct 4, 2014
Telling it like it wasn't
Previously, I explained why John Grisham need not worry about me threatening his throne as king of the mystery, thriller, suspense...
- Oct 1, 2014
Wordless Wednesday
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- Sep 24, 2014
Wordless Wednesday (almost...)
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- Sep 20, 2014
A Mystery About Mysteries
A popular genre among readers has always been M/T/S: mystery, thriller, suspense. Given the success of writers like Agatha Christie, John...
- Sep 17, 2014
Wordless Wednesday
#wordlesswednesday #asoutherngirl #adoption #baby #author #family #kids #knitting #memories
- Aug 28, 2014
A Historic Lunch
In last week’s blog I described the literary summit of three dead writers (Faulkner, Proust and Nabokov) and one very much alive writer,...
- Aug 16, 2014
I Began Hearing Voices
Last week I disclosed my dilemma in combining two short novels, A Southern Girl and Just a Dance, into the single story they cried out to...
- Aug 13, 2014
Wordless Wednesday
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- Aug 6, 2014
Wordless Wednesday
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- Aug 3, 2014
Two for the price of one
A Southern Girl (ASG) began as a short novel, by word count almost a novella. It began with the infant’s abandonment as the U.S. family,...
- Jul 30, 2014
Wordless wednesday
#wordlesswednesday #asoutherngirl #baby #adoption #family #fulfillment #memories #photography #writing #johnwarley #insight #kids...
- Jul 25, 2014
GUEST BLOG
"Wyatt Durrette has been a friend, a mentor and an inspiration to me for almost four decades. He is also one fine reader, whose...
- Jul 20, 2014
Sorting it out on paper
In my last blog, I raised the question of how it is possible for fiction to reveal more truth than non-fiction--how things that never...
- Jul 12, 2014
Inspiration for a novel
Last week’s blog identified three forces in Mexico that inspired me to more and hopefully better production in my writing. But motivation...
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