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...
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Blog & News for Award Winning Author John Warley
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...
Oct 22, 2014
Wordless Wednesday
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Oct 4, 2014
Telling it like it wasn't
Previously, I explained why John Grisham need not worry about me threatening his throne as king of the mystery, thriller, suspense...
Aug 28, 2014
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,...
Aug 16, 2014
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...
Aug 3, 2014
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,...
Jul 30, 2014
Wordless wednesday
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Jul 12, 2014
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...
Jul 5, 2014
Life on the Literary Road
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...
Jul 1, 2014
Wordless Wednesday
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Jul 1, 2014
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...
Jun 25, 2014
Wordless Wednesday
LINK #wordlesswednesday #asoutherngirl #robertryman #whitepaintings #painting #abstract #summer #canvas #adoption #johnwarley #lawyer...
Jun 7, 2014
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...
May 30, 2014
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...
May 22, 2014
A Visit from Abraham Lincoln
In last week’s blog, a Wizard in the form of my youngest son, Carter, helped me take the first step along the road I am still traveling....
May 14, 2014
Wordless Wednesday
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May 10, 2014
A Wizard to the Rescue
Last week I wrote about the attrition of the spirit I felt after eighteen years in the legal arena, butting heads with judges, opposing...
May 6, 2014
Writing vs. Law; the price of conflict
My writing life began with a short story I wrote in 1990 called The Dare on the Bridge. The bridge, in case you’re curious, is the...
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