An empty page. It’s every author’s challenge, me included. “What next?” I always ask myself, after completing a chapter. Some days the answer appears in large chunks. Other days in dribs and drabs. On still other days, I sit forever before a blank screen before I finally put it all aside and ask, “Why in […]
(If you’d care to follow my musings, I’ve decided to use this space, for the time being, to workshop a character I’ve been thinking about lately, an ancestor, named Henry Fall. Little is known of his life, per se, but I believe once can surmise a lot and I explore that here.) When the ship […]
A word about Hannah Armstrong, the mother who appears in The Lincoln Moon. The more I wrote about her, the more I fell in love with her and the loving heart which motivates her throughout the story. My character was fictional, but here’s some back story on the real Hannah. Hannah’s family lived in New […]
As I write this, “The Lincoln Moon” is undergoing its finally copy edit and we are sequestered due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But thankfully my copy editor is helping it into final shape for its September, 2020 release and that is more than helping me pass the time. In 2005, I was suddenly seized with […]
My first novel, The Lincoln Moon, is about to be published, so I thought I’d use this space to muse about the historical backdrop of the time period in which in which which is its setting. My hope is to help readers better understand the relevant politics of the time period, 1857, which informs the […]
