ROBERT TOWNSEND
a series of life story posts
Ледоход (Spirit Falls in Russian)
Ледоход Spirit Falls - Ледоход My long time, Merrill, Wisconsin, friend Serge Kotlar has been translating my Cold War inter-connected series of novels into Russian. The...
2nd Installment: The Wisconsin Stories
Patrice publishes her first story: Burial Burial As was Bereft, our previous short story publication, Burial will be offered free on Amazon.com for the five days (20-24 July 2013)...
Куда? Whither?
Оn 31 May Patrice and I are leaving our Madison apartment and on 31 July we are leave Madison. Patrice will teach Rolfing (August-September-October 2013) in Boulder, Colorado. While Patrice...
California Zephyr to San Francisco,
James R.C. Cook, Khorat RTAFB, Thailand, 1970 Robert Townsend, Grand Junction, Co, 19 October 2012 Patrice and I traveled the California Zephyr...
Publisher and Writer – Landowner and Serf
Cardinals Curt Flood 1968 I've spent a great deal of time composing this blog because I am writing a scene, time frame 1961, in which two young men, Rick...
Reformation and Counter-Reformation–Traditional Publishing and Indie Publishing
Martin Luther by Martin Cranach 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,...
Robert Olen Butler and A Small Hotel
Robert Olen Butler (A Small Hotel) I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients. Al Alvarez [caption id="attachment_488" align="alignleft" width="75" caption="Robert Olen...
Sense of Deception
I write about deception not to train the reader in its arcane arts, but to research my novels. There is deception in nearly any situation you can think of––nature, business,...
