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...
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Blog & News for Award Winning Author John Warley
Feb 9, 2019
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...
Feb 3, 2019
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...
Jan 23, 2019
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...
Jan 17, 2019
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...
Jan 8, 2019
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...
Jan 3, 2019
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...
Dec 27, 2018
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...
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...
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