Digital World
Do we need barcodes? ISBN's? Digital identity? Not so long ago, identity papers were literally made of paper, not plastic much less 1's and 0's in cyberspace. There were no…
Writer’s Lifestyle
There are many advantages to being a writer: having a creative outlet, learning all manner of interesting facts while doing the research for a project, exploring one's own mind and…
What’s the point?
When you think about it, the majority of Romance tales are fables expressing a lesson. Most stories, by my observation, show the angst and problems that occur without clear communication.…
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Henry David Thoreau. Virtually everyone has heard of him and his book Walden. But how many have read it? And how many have read his influential treatise Civil Disobedience? I…
Triple Treats
A Night in Paradise by Heather Graham is full of laugh-out-loud moments about a pair of octogenarians who meet in a convalescent home and decide to marry. One mistaken assumption…
Hard-boiled Detectives
Raymond Chandler and Erle Stanley Gardner are among the authors that popularized a very different style of detective from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's cerebral sleuth Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's…
HISTORY versus OUR STORY
In an earlier post, I mentioned the frustration of discovering that the history on which an historical novel was based is incorrect. Imagine finding out that virtually everything you have…
Romancing readers
While not all my books qualify as Romances, all so far have contained an element of romance within the story. Perhaps a psychologist would suggest I am looking for a…
NEW POSSIBILITIES
Life is always full of possibility if we open our eyes, minds, and hearts to opportunities. Sometimes they peek at us and wave, sometimes they hit us over the head.…
WILLIAM MORRIS
News From Nowhere And Other Writings tells a whimsical tale of time travel from the 19th century to an unspecified future England in which people live without money, without government,…
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