Blog & News for Award Winning Author John Warley

In my last blog, I raised the question of how it is possible for fiction to reveal more truth than non-fiction--how things that never...

Last week’s blog identified three forces in Mexico that inspired me to more and hopefully better production in my writing. But motivation...

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...

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Last week’s blog mentioned some challenges presented by Mexico that required adaptation. For me, the challenge above all others was to...

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Last week’s blog listed the major factors that weighed in our decision to spend a year in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. As part of my...

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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!!...

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...

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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...

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....

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Last week I wrote about the attrition of the spirit I felt after eighteen years in the legal arena, butting heads with judges, opposing...

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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...

Pendleton, South Carolina is a small town hard by Clemson, so the roads leading in have Clemson Tiger paws painted on them. Until...