Blog & News for Award Winning Author John Warley

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...

A Child of War

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...

It's All About the Blurb

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...

A Hobson’s Choice, or not.

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

A Nod to the Elderly

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

Channeling Faulkner

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...

Plotting the Plot

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...

The Journey Begins

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...

The Home Guard

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