As an author and self-publisher, I do it all, including all technology duties. Recently, one of my reader’s suggested I provide images of my creations. This would help them visualize the characters and demons. I truly love to leave such issues to the imagination of the reader, but if a […]
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We live in an era of heightened preconception: An opinion or conception formed in advance of adequate knowledge or experience. In other words, we are as prejudiced as ever. No matter how hard I try to explain most do not understand the difference between a spiritually based story and one […]
This is a call, like the lighting of a beacon, for the response of as many women as possible. I am an author and a man, a manly man. I don’t have hidden feminine traits. Therefore, you might consider me an old fashioned Rhett Butler type. I write about heroes […]
If I could wish anything for my family and friends, and even strangers – is to live a life of passion. It has been said that doing what you like is what will provide the most happiness in life. For most of our lives we are working. Yet most go […]
Today we celebrate an historic moment where men seeking freedom made a declaration of independence. They backed up this declaration by winning a war over their idea: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable […]
When I read Paradise Lost for the first time I was blown away by Milton’s originality to the fall of man story. I continue to be fascinated by Dante’s Inferno and concept of the underworld and of course, everything in Tolkien’s world. As I begin the fifth story of my […]
I am not a fan of prologues. As an author I want a story to unfold and the reader to grow into the story. However I understand their purpose to assist readers in a purchasing decision. Below is the first draft of the prologue for the upcoming release of the […]
Today we celebrate Memorial Day. However, it is a somber day. A day we remind, or should remind ourselves of those that died defending our country and the cause of good around the world. It began shortly after the Civil War and was changed to include all those that died […]
May 22, 2013 – I live in Norman, Oklahoma. As you may have read, our neighbors nine miles to the north were just hit with a devastating tornado. I am speaking of the May 20, 2013 tornado in Moore, OK. This tornado had winds higher than 200 miles per hour […]
I am an author. They tell me that I needed a blog to sell my story’s, but all people seem to want to read about is sex. Don’t you ever get bored with all the talk about sex, the books about sex and the shows about who has had sex […]