Blog & News for Award Winning Author John Warley

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,...

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...

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...

San Miguel de Allende, Mexican jewel

San Miguel de Allende was recently named the world’s number 1 city in a Conde Nast survey of its readers. That’s right, NUMBER ONE!!...

Sí, sí, señor.

Last week I wrote about our move to Mexico in 1993, a move that promised to give me the time to write the next novel at hours later than...

Best seller? Ah . . . no.

When I left you last week I was on the cusp of literary stardom with my first novel, Bethesda’s Child. I had what I had been assured was...