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...

This HBO series started last year starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConnaughey as a couple of detectives in bayou country...

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...

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...

One thing I like to do is participate in online forums (fora?). These are the discussion groups. Back in the early days of the Internet,...

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....

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

The two books I did with the late Walt Crowley several years ago are now available through University of Washington Press. Power For The...

Hot on the heels of the radio interview I appeared on KCTS Channel 9, our local PBS station. They are having a pledge drive and aired the...

Yesterday I had a book signing, probably one of the fantasies of those seeking to be published. The wannabe author imagines being seated...

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...

Six-year-old Alice lies half reclined on the stretcher struggling against asthma to breathe. Her alveolar sacs are paralyzed and her...

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...

In order to keep up my blogging I am posting from Freeland on Holmes Harbor on Whidbey Island. We have a home here and are spending the...

The North Bend Theater dates from 1941 when it opened to newsreels of the Second World War and the latest Hollywood features. A newspaper...

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

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...

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