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May.12.2013
The Orchard Keeper, by Cormac McCarthy
You may become puzzled trying to categorize McCarthy’s writing style, but you won’t find it hard at all to place it in the canon of Southern literature. McCarthy eventually moved on from this subset, his most famous books taking place in the Southwest U.S.,...
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May.06.2013
Growing up in the South, by the time you could talk fairly well and listen just a little bit, you could immediately tell another Southerner. The phrases they used, the slow, melodious speech, and the ever present PTA smile gave it away every time! In case you don't know what a PTA smile...
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Mar.25.2013
My new book, Sam's Place, published by Massachusetts house AuthorMike Ink, is officially launched today, March 25, 2013!
Want to find out more about it?
There's a great book trailer and an audio version of the book's first story at my website, linked below. If you'd pass this notice on to...
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Feb.05.2013
It just so happens that today my beloved Kelyn (that's my daughter, in case you don't know that fact) came in talking about school and used another of my favorite Southernisms in her description of the day's events. This set my mind to thinking (as minds in the South are liable to do)...
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Oct.05.2012
My eBook of short stories, Kiss Shot, is free in the Amazon Kindle Store this weekend, Oct. 5-7. Even if you don't own a Kindle, you can download the eBook via the free Kindle app for your smartphone/tablet or the Kindle reader for your computer. You can download the ebook right now at this...
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Aug.29.2012
Kiss Shot, my eBook collection of short stories, is now available exclusively in the Amazon Kindle Store for just 99 cents at this link. The book went live last night and this morning it cracked the Top 50 bestseller list for short story collections! The eBook is also available in other Amazon...
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Aug.11.2012
You can read "Clover Grill" from my forthcoming eBook short story collection,Kiss Shot, now at Scribd. The story is set in New Orleans and follows a mysterious woman named Catherine who arrives at the famed Bourbon Street diner in rainstorm. The full collection will be available...
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May.07.2012
My short story collection, Kiss Shot, is now with my editor. Whew! If you follow the blog regularly, I had originally planned to have the book ready last Christmas. Two of the stories needed more extensive work than I thought and since I am self-publishing Kiss Shot as an eBook, I decided to...
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May.04.2012
Arts and Letters – Issue 26, Spring 2012
image via gcsu.edu
I’ve become somewhat jaded about literary magazines, particularly those sponsored and published by the various colleges and universities, but not this time. This publication by Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA, contains...
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Oct.28.2011
Among the files I rescued from my 20-year-old word processor (now in recycling heaven) were four short stories written in the mid to late 90s. I had submitted one of the stories, How Fanny Got Her House, to literary magazines back in the day with no success. Now that self-publishing eBooks is...
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