Category: Books
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A Taste of Things to Come – A Teaser for My Next Novel, ‘Mystery White Boy’
I had a great opportunity on Sunday to read an excerpt of my work in progress, Mystery White Boy, at a four-author event at Kennett Brewing Company in Kennett Square,…
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Returning from That Summer Place
It’s almost back to school time here in southeastern Pennsylvania, which means the kids will be terminating their summer brain dumps, rushing to catch up on assigned reading and trying…
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Zoinks! A Big Announcement
I know this will come as a shock to many of you, but I’ve decided to forgo any additional work on my second novel and leave Codorus Press. I…
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NoNoNoNo: The Tyranny of #NaNoWriMo
We’ve now officially passed the middle of what all writers (and exasperated spouses/family of writers) know as National Novel Writing Month. And I have come not to praise this obnoxious…
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In the Wake of Charleston, Waiting for Tomorrowland
Wow – what a weird couple of weeks. A few major Supreme Court decisions that permanently turned things in the U.S. in a dramatically different direction, preceded by the tragedy…
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Monday Motivation: The Writer and the Altered Mental State
Back when I wrote a weekly column for my home town’s newspaper, I took it upon myself to occasionally add a hefty dose of weird to my readers’ lives. Many…
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Tuesday Writing Tip: Every Generation Has Something to Say
I’m a child of the late 1960s, which – if you do the math of generational pigeonholing – puts me squarely among what has historically been referred to as Generation…
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Entirely Biased and Totally Subjective Book Review: ‘Phoenix Island’ by John Dixon
In the lives of kids, there aren’t many grays. In the case of bullying, there’s usually the bully, the victim and the bystanders – bad, good and indifferent. Young boxing…
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