by Robert | Mar 16, 2012 | Publishing
I am a Germanophile. My Wisconsin farmer-neighbors were first and second generation German immigrants. I went to high school with the Greutsmacher, Schenk, Meyer, Schmidt, Langenkampf and Gatterman… families. I served in Germany about ten of my twenty soldier...
by Robert | Jan 26, 2012 | Deception, Publishing
Sergei has sent me the first chapters of his Russian translation of Spirit Falls (Дух в Водопаде? Те, кторые говорят по русски, предлогайте еще название книги), which I have postedhere. He is concerned whether his translation captures the novel’s spirit. For those...
by Robert | Dec 31, 2011 | Book Reviews, Publishing
It is New Year’s Eve 2012 in Madison, Wisconsin. Yesterday there was an alternating snow-sleet-rain storm in our Lake Wingra microclimate. Today this small world is grey and ice-covered. Tomorrow morning there is a winter weather advisory—high winds and sleet. I had...
by Robert | Jun 25, 2011 | Deception, Publishing, Russia, Soviet Union
The purpose of this web site is to make sense of liars whom I’ve lived and worked among, against, and for in my life. There are moments when I shake with rage at the memory of trust broken; as well I quiver with shame at the memory of breaking trust. We deceive...
by Robert | Jul 21, 2010 | Publishing, Soviet Union
Spirit Falls is now published as an ebook in multiple-formats I went to Colorado with four goals; the first to write 10,000 new novel words (succeeded) and the second was to convert Spirit Falls to electronic book format (did that too; read on). In the process of...