When I wrote my third book Blood Land, thus beginning the life and series of Sheriff James Pruett, there was a town and a people and a landscape I aimed to capture—the ones, in fact, where I grew up and grew up with. A friend posted this gorgeously-done video by the Chamber of Commerce and […]
I haven’t blogged in a while (again) but it’s mostly been because I am getting ready to kick off the long overdue 90-day release of Blood Land with a decent-sized marketing firm and I owe them nine blogs which they are going to put out on some widely-read blogs, so if I am blogging at […]
I figured with 2012 Election Week upon us, tensions high, fists punching teeth down other people’s throats—oh, wait, that was something else entirely. Scratch that. But you have to admit, we are a bit of a nation divided, and there has been a lot of campaign rhetoric to swallow lately, so I thought, “damn it, […]
This is going to be a baby blog, though I’m writing it for two VERY important reasons: 1. I want to talk about my last post (and stance) on Table of Contents for fiction books. and 2. I just installed the Disqus plugin (the cool one that’s supposed to allow you to log in via […]
I actually started a blog on this subject yesterday, was pulled away, and never got back to finishing it. Then this morning I had an email/ticket from Amazon in my inbox because a reader complained that my FICTION book does not have a Table of Contents (referred to more lovingly in the writing community as […]
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