Blog & News for Award Winning Author John Warley

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...

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 we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, my mind is on . . . turkey? Don’t make me laugh, or even chuckle. Yes, of course I’m looking...

Greetings from Miami, Florida. The title of this blog comes, of course, as a paraphrase of a Jimmy Buffett song I've always liked,...

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...

Previously, I explained why John Grisham need not worry about me threatening his throne as king of the mystery, thriller, suspense...

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A popular genre among readers has always been M/T/S: mystery, thriller, suspense. Given the success of writers like Agatha Christie, John...

In last week’s blog I described the literary summit of three dead writers (Faulkner, Proust and Nabokov) and one very much alive writer,...

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...

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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,...

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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...

Last week’s blog identified three forces in Mexico that inspired me to more and hopefully better production in my writing. But motivation...

Six weeks on the road is a stretch, and when forty-three events in four states are factored in, there is only one logical question that...

Last week’s blog mentioned some challenges presented by Mexico that required adaptation. For me, the challenge above all others was to...