Today I’m celebrating National Library Week by sharing advance praise from eleven authors for my short story collection, FRIENDS…
Well, in my late-life literary career, it seems that good news keeps coming in multiples, or at least in pairs.…
It’s been a few months since I blogged about my short story collection, FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY. Back in September…
Happy Halloween! I’m excited to announce that one of the stories in my linked short story collection, FRIENDS OF THE…
If you read my blog regularly, you know that I have published four books, with four different publishers—two university presses…
This week marks the 60th year that America has celebrated NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK. Back in the 1950s, Americans (like ME!)…
Eleven years ago this August I went to the first Mississippi Writers Guild Conference in Clinton, Mississippi. It was pivotal…
Ironincally, today I find myself visiting book clubs and even doing video chats via Skype and Face Time with clubs…
As we near the end of 2017, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at…
When I was a student at Murrah High School in Jackson, Mississippi (1966-1969) I had a guidance counselor named Carl…