The origin of this book came in the early 1990s in my family history research. I stumbled across a query in an old journal mentioning my...

I was honored to be interviewed on the Writers Groupie podcast. I moved my desk around so that my bookcase was in the background and I...

As posted here before, I have begun to explore audio books in addition to hard copy books and e-books. In the past month or two I have...

I usually have two books going at once, one a work of fiction and the other some kind of history book. With the Kindle I can have three...

I recently published, via Amazon.com’s print-on-demand program Create Space, my historical novel Down The River. The story grew out of my...

My novel Down The River is now available through Amazon.com. A Kindle version will also be available soon. Buy it. Read it. Review it....

About everything I can get my WiFi around. The Kindle Santa brought me has transformed my lierary life. I have purchased and downloaded a...

The news item about a publisher cleaning up Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to eliminate references to “the N-word” is both laughable and...

It’s been a year of premiers, the big events that mark chapters in life. Where to start? We all strolled the red carpet to meet Kellen...

Yesterday, I drove to Portland to meet with a class of twelve university students who read and critiqued my historical novel Down The...

A minor interest of mine (it doesn’t yet rise to the level of hobby) is strategy and simulation games for the computer. I have always...

I completed the major revision in my historical novel Down The River that the publisher was looking for. I had one of my writing...

Writing is an individual sport, but the writer is not always alone, certainly not this one. I started taking writing classes in 1995....

This blog started as a way to report progress in my efforts to publish my two novels, Down The River, an historical novel, and Tiny...

Getting Published – Now and Then 05/02/2008 I have written two works of fiction and I am actively trying to get one, Down The River,...