Sunday, April 19, 2020

Third Installment Soundtrack

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Inevitably, I will always look back on my fifth novel as “the Covid-19 book.” Being required to stay at home for weeks—while not forgetting ...
Monday, March 16, 2020

The Bard of Santiago de Chuco

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First, a writing update. I am pleased to report I am nearly at the end of Chapter 23 in my first draft of the sequel to Lautaro’s Spear. I s...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Agreeing with Stephen Fry

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Work on Volume Three of the Dallas Green Trilogy continues. After getting through Christmas and flu seasons in January, I finally got back i...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

One Hundred Years of Waiting?

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If you go into Netflix and look up Title No. 81087583, you come across something that makes people like me very excited. It is a series call...
Saturday, December 7, 2019

Happy 67th, Dallas!

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It’s Pearl Harbor Day, which means it is also the real-life birthday of the non-real-life character who has consumed more of my time than an...
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...