Mount Pleasant |
On Friday, July 31, I am scheduled for an interview in Tyler, Texas, on KETV and to sign my novel, Women of Magdalene, that afternoon at the Tyler Broadway Pavilion Barnes & Noble. Tyler is not so ver...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:14:00 GMT |
Paraplex: A Treat for the Six Senses |
Research for a novel brought me this spring to New Orleans, and research for particularly gothic aspects of that novel brought me to the citys new attraction for all six senses : the Paraplex. The ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:05:00 GMT |
Drawing Inspiration |
Each weekday morning on the way to the office of my day-job at a community college, I have the pleasure of passing the small, glassed-in campus art gallery. Then, each evening I catch another glimpse ...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:04:00 GMT |
Historical Novel Society Conference |
Just wanted to let everyone know that the Historical Novel Society Conference is coming up, June 12 - 14, 2009, in Schaumberg, Illinois (near Chicago). Readers and writers of historical fiction gather...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:20:00 GMT |
Writer's Panic |
While for everything there may be a season, late December is the season for many things: celebrating holiday cheer and lamenting over-indulgence, gathering with loved ones and missing absent friends, ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:09:00 GMT |
Director's Notes |
October 10, 2008, Eclectic Theater Company of Seattle opened a new production of my drama The Little Death under the direction of L. Nicol Cabe. Over a decade ago, Gypsy Theatre Company gave the play ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:09:00 GMT |
After Ike: A Shifting Landscape |
What can I live without? As a resident of the Texas Gulf Coast area, I have contemplated that question more and more in recent years. Of course, part of my musing is inspired by my growing older, adju...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:02:00 GMT |
Publishing, Marketing, Writing--Not Necessarily in That Order |
While preparing notes for an upcoming presentation, "Publishing and Marketing Your Fiction", I reflected ..xperiences as both an attendee and a speaker at workshops and conferences. So often the topic...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:24:00 GMT |
Soup & Stories |
My mother raised me on soup and stories. I was finicky about the former, preferring tomato with so much milk in it that we called it "pink soup", but insatiable for the latter. In her melodious readin...
Posted by on Fri, 23 May 2008 07:33:00 GMT |
Academy Awards? Well, I know what I like. |
Before the Academy Awards Ceremony, I wrote a couple of articles pertaining to two movies that received nominations but, as things turned out, didn't win the gold statues. Even so, I still s...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:04:00 GMT |
