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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.24.2013 - 8:51 pm

A First Podcast!

Finally - another dream made real! The link below will take you to the first GridleyReview, a re-do of last week's post on W.J. Cash's THE MIND OF THE SOUTH. Check it out...

May.24.2013 - 7:13 am

Audio From Sam's Place and Other News

I've been spreading the news around, but in case I missed you, or you missed the news, I've recorded an audio book of my latest, Sam's Place: Stories. You can...

May.24.2013 - 6:52 am

A Literary Repentance

Iron Horse Literary Review, Volume 15.1, Open Issue 2013 Okay, I’m prepared to repent. I’ve dissed IHLR more than once in this blog, and while earlier issues...

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,...

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Jan.22.2013 - 8:04 am

In response to: 2012 Book Critics Circle Finalists

I just read

David Abrams' book, Fobbit, about the Ira war. It has been touted as another Catch-22, also, and while it's a fine book...

Dec.24.2012 - 10:10 am

In response to: The Writing Day

Lincoln

was great, wasn't it. Give your wife my best, hope the RA eases, and keep writing, Michael. Happy holidays!

Dec.24.2012 - 10:08 am

In response to: Let us buy him a small plastic farm

Kudos on the marzipan, a big

Kudos on the marzipan, a big sigh about the gun... Happy holidays, Mary.

Dec.24.2012 - 10:05 am

In response to: The Writing Life: Never Give Up

True that!

Happy Holidays, Bruce!

Dec.20.2012 - 8:39 am

In response to: Independent Bookstores Find Their Footing/npr

Great...

...to hear, Ron. Hard to lose focus when you're surrounded by books, eh? Thanks for stopping by. Bob

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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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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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