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August 31, 2025
Long books are my bliss – but writing them can have its challenges. Obviously, they take more time to write and edit. Then there’s the reluctant publisher who knows its going to be expensive to print and ship.

March 26, 2025
Even though the main character in my story is John Ridge, this being Women’s History Month, my thoughts turn to the real women who populate the pages of Red Clay, Running Waters, their courage, their devotion, and their influences on the shaping of history.

May 25, 2024
On May 26th, 1838, the United States Government began enforcing the terms of the Treaty of New Echota (1836) upon the Cherokee people residing in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama.

April 14, 2024
For me, this iconic phrase from the movie The Sixth Sense pretty much sums up what it’s like writing Biographical Historical Fiction. You spend your days (and many nights) seeing dead people – in brief, animated imaginings, based on the story you are stitching together.

March 08, 2024
you know what they say – Once out, there’s no putting that ephemeral thing back inside. Aren’t we glad?…

February 14, 2024
Over centuries, artist, writers, musicians, philosophers, scientists and basically every human being have sought to answer that question, to craft their own definition…

October 23, 2023
I’m coming close to the end of a very long road, one I travelled with people long dead. It was a journey I volunteered for, not travelled with ghosts or imaginary friends…

Aug 28, 2023
After years of working on Red Clay, Running Waters I began to realize that History is a lot like the game of Telephone we once played as kids.

Aug 20, 2023
Write the book you want to read is advice I took to heart. Never mind that it took me forty years to write it. Mission accomplished.

Aug 03, 2023
I recently undertook a HUGE road trip to the United States. This was no free-wheel campervan make-it-up travel, but a tightly scheduled, intentional journey into our past…