Publishing
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,...
Spirit Falls in Russian
Spirit Falls-Ледоход_dual language Book CoverDownload Sergei has sent me the first chapters of his Russian translation of Spirit Falls (Дух в Водопаде? Те, кторые говорят по русски, предлогайте еще...
This Web Log is about…
The purpose of this website is to make sense of the liars whom I've lived and worked for, among, and against. There are moments when I shake with rage at...
Towards the next novel
March 15, 2011And on reading War and Peace (Tolstoi), On War (Clausewitz) and War (Sun Tsu) Having just finished the first draft of the novel "Wounded," I have been thinking...
