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Returning to Broadcasting

I said several years ago that once I started feeling too good about myself, I’d return to broadcasting. Now I’m feeling good…too good. Soooooooooooooooooooooooo… I plan to start a podcast for Baby Boomers, which would start on radio, then be…

Saluki Marooned to be Translated into Russian

According to Wikipedia, the most spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese, then Spanish.   My novel about the Berkley of the Midwest during the Roaring 70’s is now being translated into both of these languages. As I write,…

Storm Your Way to That Big Book Sale

“Think outside the box,” is heard a lot in offices, where people work in boxes. But another type of box can be used to escape that type of stifling thinking that we all have learned to hate.  Craig Paxson of…

I Could Write a Book About This!

Sure you can!  But will you? Listen below.   That was recorded in 2010, and the novel was published in 2011.   Questions About the New Book Who’s Talking? I need to decide this before I begin writing.  My first…

Write a Novel Like Chopin Composed for the Piano

Before we get into the preternatural-how to color with music, and write like a piano sounds-I would like to update you on the progress of  my next novel about Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. At the recent Edmondson Pike Writer’s Group, Melissa came-up…

The Deal

The Problem: Is finding a job where I can write my new novel, and keep up with my two websites and three Facebook pages, in addition to: Instagram, Twitter, Google, and something else which I forgot.  I also want to…

The Blinking Cursor

And now it starts.  The desire to write another novel, yet having only the vaguest idea of what to write about.  So here I am staring at a blinking cursor…for this blog, not the book.   But first, the table…

Inspiration

From the 1948 Film Portrait of Jennie:  Cab driver Gus O Toole is checking out his cab at the end of  the evening, and talking with his friend Eben Adams, a painter who is late on his rent and only…