I recently had the pleasure of meeting author Lisa Patton in person, when she spoke at Novel books in Memphis,…
Five years ago yesterday I drove down to Fairhope, Alabama, to get together with a group of folks who were…
I had never heard the Latin phrase, “memento mori,”until a couple of weeks ago when we were in New Orleans,…
I hope you’ve been following my series of excerpts from SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING (coming from University Press of Mississippi…
If you’re on Facebook, you’ve already seen how I photo-bombed the place all weekend with pictures from the 2018…
I’m off to Nacogdoches, Texas, on Thursday for the 2018 Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend, where as many as several hundred…
This past weekend I traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, for the 29th Annual Southern Festival of Books. The only other time…
All day today I’ve been trying to decide what to write about here on my blog. It’s as close to…
So, I was in Nashville (Brentwood, actually) Saturday at a book event for A Second Blooming at Barnes and Noble,…
I’ve been in Denver visiting kids and grands (and watching the Broncos win the Super Bowl at my son’s Super…