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WWI Diary Entries

  Last Friday I wrote about Killing My Darlings which resulted in deleting the first eleven chapters of Time & Regret. But then I had another thought. Perhaps some of the materials

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Killing my darlings

The first time I heard this phrase, I had no idea what it meant. And now I can toss it around like any other seasoned writer. Time & Regret is

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Non-literary Influences

This week’s Bookends, a feature in the New York Times Book Review, asks two authors to describe their non-literary influences. Thomas Mallon who writes historical fiction cites photos such as one

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Images of WWI

I’m working on my third novel, Time & Regret, the story of Martin Devlin and his granddaughter, Grace, who tries to solve a mystery he left for her embedded in

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The Divine Sarah

Several months ago, as we were moving from house to condo and clearing accumulated junk was the order of the day, I came across a book that has graced my

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Turning-Point by Calvin Hedley

Calvin Hedley has a unique challenge for a writer – he’s blind. And here’s his story about writing and publishing Turning-Point. Calvin was introduced to me by Douglas Burcham, the

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