Wednesday, October 24, 2018

What’s in a Name?

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Once I get caught up on all my other reading, I plan to re-read a book on my shelf which is called Turtles All the Way Down . Have you heard...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Forever Young

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I have to ask the question. What is the deal with YA books? In the literary market, the Young Adult segment is huge. This appears to go b...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Proving Thomas Wolfe Wrong

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It’s hard to believe that it has been more than fourteen months since Lautaro’s Spear was released. After this amount of time, you may even...
Friday, June 29, 2018

R.I.P. Cordwainer Bird

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FYI: This is a cross-post on both my book and movie blogs. It is always sad when a great talent, who has been contributor to our culture...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Children of the Revolution

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“Time is running out for Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega,” proclaims a headline in The Economist . “Nicaraguan students whose families f...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Mud in Your Eye

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On my movie blog I like to joke that I write my film reviews and commentaries—especially the ones dealing with the Academy Awards—while dru...
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Monday, April 23, 2018

The Write Stuff

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A reader has been very kind to seek me out about writing advice. Specifically, he asked how I center myself and clear my thoughts prior to w...
Friday, April 13, 2018

Fitness of Character

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How do writers come up with their characters? The suspicion with novelists—especially first-time ones—is that their protagonists are thin...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The First Hurdle

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The good news that I have now written nine chapters of my next book. The bad news is that five of them are Chapter 1 and four of them are...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Art of the Sequel

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In my previous post I explained in a fair amount of detail how my first novel Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead came about. There is no nee...