Friday, November 1, 2019

The Playlist of Septimus Bridge

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If you are about to read (or reread) The Curse of Septimus Bridge, here is some good news. Now you can listen to music while you read it. O...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Back on the Apology Train

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How times flies. This month marks five years since the release of the paperback version of Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead . That half-deca...
Monday, August 26, 2019

From Minnie to Marilyn to Author

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Sometimes it seems as though all I do on this blog is talk about my book(s), but I guess that kind of makes sense since this is, after all, ...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Over the Hill

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I have a problem with genres. I think I pretty well established that back when I wrote about how I could not get my head around the idea of...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Art of the Novel

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I have lived with The Curse of Septimus Bridge for about fifty years now. And no, that’s not an exaggeration. Like the title character, I a...
Friday, July 5, 2019

Book No. 4 Is Out Now!

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After months of gnawing thirst, I have finally broken out the Writer’s Tears cask-strength Irish whiskey! That’s right. I have finally rel...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Haunted

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As we ambled through the New Mexico desert, we talked about our favorite books. We knew, all too sadly, this would probably be our last ti...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Bilbo in the Banner County?

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Have you ever had one of those moments when you slap yourself on the head and exclaim, “How did I possibly get to the age I am without knowi...
Saturday, March 2, 2019

Blowing in the Wind

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One Atlantic storm after another blows over Ireland this time of year. A few weeks ago there was one called Erik, which frequent readers of ...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Stranger Than Fiction

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As I have discussed here before, people often accuse my novels of being thinly veiled accounts of things that have actually happened to me. ...