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Fiction, historical fiction

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PUBLISHED: Feb.25.2012

A Reason To Tremble

Ten year-old Emily Shane is struck by a hit and run driver on a darkened street in the fictional town of Hope, Georgia. There are witnesses, but the reports are conflicting. Was it a resident? A stranger driving through? Or someone else? Pat, Emily's father, deepens the town's shock by accusing local businessman Phil Agee of the crime. Police chief Davis Anderson begins an...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.13.2010

The Blue Bicycle

Artie Royal has had a rough life - he's suffered more loss and rejection than anyone should have to bear. Still, he rises above the problems confronting him, and he does it with charity and grace and understanding. In fact, it eventually becomes as easy for him to push his concerns aside as it was at age eight to soar down Main Street on that blue bike, wind whistling in his ears.

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2003

A Place of Belonging

Stephen Banks loos up from breakfast at a Clarkesville, Georgia, diner to see a frightened and unkempt young woman climb from the truck. Who is she? Banks must find out. The task is a daunting one - her name is Ginger, and she has amnesia. As Banks and Ginger leave Clarkesville in search of her past, they must also solve a murder - a murder of which Ginger stands accused. Their...

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Bob's Latest Blogs

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May.19.2013 - 6:41 pm

Star Trek Into Darkness - the Movie

There's nothing quite as fascinating - or as hopeful - as the re-creation of an old movie or, in this case a TV series. But you never experience a good reboot, it seems,...

May.18.2013 - 7:12 am

The Way It Was, The Way It Is

The Mind of the South, by W.J. Cash This book was written some 75 years ago, and it’s amazing to me how closely Southern attitudes, the South's social structure, the...

May.18.2013 - 7:01 am

Don't Make Fun of the Renowned Dan Brown/Telegraph

As both a writer and a book critic, I can only say to critics: Criticize, but be nice. The Telegraph Visit my website here, and my FB Fan Page here ...

May.17.2013 - 8:10 am

Missouri and Writing

You wouldn't think of the Midwest as a hotbed of literary and creative writing - unless you've been to the Iowa Workshop, or are a fan of one of that area's...

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Apr.18.2013 - 4:13 pm

In response to: Stellar Writing Will Out

The unstructured...

...novel is lying fallow for the moment. I finished a first draft -at some 35k words. A novella - dystopian look at the...

Apr.18.2013 - 4:06 pm

In response to: Stellar Writing Will Out

Hey, Michael

Sorry I haven't been in touch, but there are things going on at home (or hereabouts) to consume my time: A new book...

Mar.29.2013 - 5:21 am

In response to: A Novel Approach

Hi, Michael

I'm amazed at how things come. Been busy lately coping with my wife's cancer, but I'm still finding an hour to write....

Mar.17.2013 - 7:40 am

In response to: Book Review: The Flat and Weightless Tang-Filled Future

The Short Story Lives!

I'm glad to see this book out - - the pub biz doesn't seem to be in love with short fiction, but they should be. Such...

Feb.08.2013 - 1:16 pm

In response to: And So It Begins

Hey!

Great to hear from you, Michael! Yeah, and there was another kerfuffle. The contract was ambiguous on the percent...

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Short Story: Sam's War

Short Story: An Excerpt From My New Novella, "The Blue Bicycle"

Article: His Revolution

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Video: Deck Us All With Boston Charlie

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ”

—ERNEST HEMINGWAY, New York Journal-American, Jul. 11, 1961

About Bob

I've been a North Carolina Writers Network writer-in-residence at Peace College under Doris Betts' guiding hand. In the early '90s, I was the editor of a small literary journal,The Rural Sophisticate, based in Georgia. My work has appeared in The...

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