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Rick George Charged With Pushing a Guy Down a Coal Pit
April 30, 2008
I know all about life imitating art, but I thought that in THE FOURTH HOUSE, I made my nominal bad guy, Rick George, three-dimensional enough that he wasn't all that bad. Now some feller from Taqua…
Freak Writing Accident
April 3, 2008
I lead a rather safe life. No commuting, no real physical labor. I don't even have co-workers who might be apt to bring a gun to work. Almost anything can happen to me and I would still be able to…
Dead Again
March 19, 2008
Looking back, I notice that a number of my blog entries are eulogies or discussions of death. Odd, I know, intermixed as they are with my more irreverent and humorous musings. But I suppose it’s an…
Do I Need to Change My Hairstyle?
March 5, 2008
Everybody is making fun of this poor, misunderstood fellow from the film "No Country for Old Men" for his hair style, which sort of reminds me of my own. Am I being sent a message? What's the most…
Mainstream Fiction and Romance Novels
February 27, 2008
Happy belated Valentine's Day. In honor of the season of love, allow me to speak on the title topic. In every form of artistic expression, there appears the need to “define and classify” everything.…
My Fans Are Getting Prettier
February 8, 2008
I was raised sightly north of Amish country, but often times I wonder. I got a blog comment today from some woman from Allentown, PA, but I accidentally erased it. I feel badly about it -- technical…
Three Mothers
February 6, 2008
In the acknowledgments of THE FOURTH HOUSE, I mention my friend, V (which is not code for anything -- it's the name he really goes by. Seriously.), who discovered late in life that he had been…
Thanks for 2007 Part II
January 17, 2008
You may have noticed that I have no pictures of friends or family on this web site. That is because no one loves me. Kidding! No, the truth is that my family, like my literary agent, has asked to…