

Publication Day
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...


The Home Guard
Remember a few blogs back when I talked about writers compulsively asking themselves, “What if . . .?” Beaufort’s Civil War history so...


Wordless Wednesday
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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...


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...


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,...


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...


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,...


Wordless wednesday
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Channeling F. Scott, Ernest, and The Big Mo
Last week’s blog mentioned some challenges presented by Mexico that required adaptation. For me, the challenge above all others was to...