Serendipity
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...
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My First Podcast
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...
Where is Norman Rockwell when we need him?
I got up at 6 a.m. to discover gifts on the front porch deposited by Santa’s helpers in the brown trucks. Saturday Evening Post of the...
Selling and Buying
Today I bought and I sold via Amazon.com. I tried to buy toys for my grandsons the old fashioned way, but when I got there, the toy store...
What are you reading? Hearing?
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...
The Mill
I really need to get better at blogging. That’s a good New Year’s resolution, but I’ve never done New Year’s resolutions. My newest...
Podcasts
Yes, an entire year since the last post. Not that I haven’t had anything to write, I just haven’t written it here. Here’s hoping I do...
Another Voice
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...
Published
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....
PC Huckleberry Finn
The news item about a publisher cleaning up Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to eliminate references to “the N-word” is both laughable and...
Power For The People: A History of Seattle City Light
Yesterday Mind Over Matter host Diane Horn interviewed me on KEXP Radio FM 90.3 about my history of Seattle City Light. Click here to go...
Publishing Update
The two books I did with the late Walt Crowley several years ago are now available through University of Washington Press. Power For The...
New Books
I received good news this week. University of Washington Press is listing two books of mine in their online catalogue. The first is Power...
New Contract
The folks at Turner Publishing Co. in Nashville have a new project for me, Historic Photos of Seattle in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. It’s the...
Christmas 2009
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...
A Bold History
The book launch at Queen Anne Books in Seattle went well. The book store staff (thank you Tegen) was very gracious and had a beautiful...
Historic Photos of Puget Sound
My own copies are in and they are beautiful. The publisher is arranging local media interviews and a launch party. Stay tooned. #books...
The Publishing Industry
I just read an article (online) about the most recent BookExpo America convention in New York which points out some important points...
Readers
Yesterday, I drove to Portland to meet with a class of twelve university students who read and critiqued my historical novel Down The...
A New Gig
Surfing the ads on Craigs List does work. They have two categories for writers and I found an ad that caught my eye. I am now under...
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