I’m happy to share our first blurbs from advance copies of my coming-in-May third novel, Under the Same Blue Sky. “From the smoke-filled streets of Pittsburgh to the war-ravaged landscape of Europe, Under the Same Blue Sky is the story…
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“We struck oil!” he gushed.
Preparing for a workshop on dialogue writing (2/28 in Knoxville), I’ve taken a wild detour into Tom Swifties, the fabulously inventive construction used by Dickens and perfected in the Tom Swift book series (1910 and onward) in which dialogue tags…
PTSD in Mesopotamia
My research for Under the Same Blue Sky on shell shock (PTSD) in World War I uncovered constant references to generals and politicians being themselves shocked, shocked by the number of afflicted soldiers. Really? You send men into battle, enduring…
Pigeon saves 194 men
Once I dove into World War I history, I found too many stories for one novel. Here’s an amazing one: Cher Ami, a homing pigeon who saved 194 desperate American soldiers in the Battle of Argonne, in October, 1918. The…
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Cartooning World War I
Cartooning the horrors and political complexities of World War 1 produced some lovely illustrations.
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