Starting research on my third novel, set just before and during World War I, I discover the Espionage Act of 1917 established $10,000 fines and/or 20 year prison sentences for criticizing or saying or writing anything “disloyal, profane, scurrilous or…
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Telling Stories of the Stone Age
It’s a rainy day and I’m thinking about my father. He was a gifted pharmaceutical research chemist with encyclopedic interests. I can see him now, so many evenings when I was growing up, sitting in an arm chair pouring over…
At last! A publication date!
We have a publication date, September 3, 2013 for Swimming in the Moon and a launch date, September 5 at the Laural Theater, Knoxville. Last night I submitted a revised (revised, revised . . . ) draft to HarperCollins. Not…
Posted in Writing
Early, early spring
It’s a warm winter morning in eastern Tennessee, enough for a light jacket when walking Jesse the Dog, in the 40s with a clearing blue sky. All seasonal weather, nothing so special in these parts, but it reminds me of…
Gray cat in the manger
My grandmother was loving, kind and self-sacrificing. Margaret, my grandfather’s lady friend with whom he took up after my grandmother’s death, was none of that. Margaret did have lovely skin, as she often pointed out. She was from New Orleans,…
Knoxville Easy-Thread Needle Conspiracy
If you ever sew, even an occasional button, and have less than 20-20 vision, you want these needles. Instead of poking blindly, increasingly convinced that a company of rich men, a dozen Rupert Murdocks, could enter the Kingdom of Heaven…
Writing, barking, shouting
There’s a German Shepherd in the neighborhood who likes to bark in the afternoons. Since this was meant to be a writing afternoon, I’ve been tense. Barking isn’t an intrinsically soothing sound and I prefer silence for writing rather than,…
Why women shouldn’t vote
I’ve been researching the women’s suffrage movement and came upon these illuminating pamphlets on why voting is not good for women and also doesn’t remove spots on clothing as easily as you’d like. Food for thought.
Posted in WWWS
What makes clams happy?
Granted this is a fairly trivial topic, but ask an anxious writer how many ways there are to lose time while fretting over a passage and you’ll get a lot of interesting answers. So I was walking Jesse the dog…
Writing can be write fun
Deep into the seriousness of preparing my manuscript for HarperCollins, I had the great experience of Brent Thompson’s Write Nite in the upper room of Knoxville’s Preservation Pub. It was fun, with edge and beer, very Cheers-like, a little rap,…
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