Upon seeing my newest book
Some twenty-three days after the presumptive official publication of my latest book, Loyalty, I received actual copies of the book.
Some twenty-three days after the presumptive official publication of my latest book, Loyalty, I received actual copies of the book.
I can only speak for myself but these days as I sit at my desk and try (emphasis, try) to write while a wicked war rages is Europe, is not easy.
In all this, I am urging that there be nothing about your manuscript that inhibits the reader from reading it. That is, after all, the point.
One of the questions I am almost always asked is, “Do you ever have writers’ block?” I heard it just the other day.
In the process of rewriting and revision, there is a myriad of line and word changes. That goes without saying. But quite often there are much bigger alterations.
February 8, 2022. This is publication day for my new book, Loyalty (Clarion). Publication Day is often a day for some (mild) celebration.
If one bothers to read the reviews of my historical fiction or the letters that my readers write to me, you will note the constant comments about the many details I put in my books. Reviewers appreciate them. My readers seem to love them.
When snow began to fall I thought I’d beat the worst of it by going on my regular walk about. Three quarters of my way I slipped on ice, fell, and—I could barely walk.
Could I write an engaging, exciting story about a teenage boy who comes from a family of Massachusetts loyalists, suffers the consequences of that at the hands of rebels only to become caught up in the roiling buildup toward the war for independence?
Over the years I’ve written three novels about the American Revolution. Why the fascination with history? There is the obvious: history provides great stories. Not dates and battles, but human stories.