Coastal Alabama Authors Check In A couple of weeks ago I did a post with entries from three authors who…
Lifting One Another Up My favorite author Pat Conroy called himself a “blurb slut,” and was known for writing blurbs…
Today I’m celebrating National Library Week by sharing advance praise from eleven authors for my short story collection, FRIENDS…
If you read my blog regularly, you know that I have published four books, with four different publishers—two university presses…
Five years ago yesterday I drove down to Fairhope, Alabama, to get together with a group of folks who were…
110 years ago, in 1908, 500 “free thinking people” seeking “their own special utopia” established the town of Fairhope, Alabama…
I’m off this morning to Orange Beach, Alabama, where I’m speaking at the 2018 Conference of the Alabama Writers Conclave…
Eleven years ago this August I went to the first Mississippi Writers Guild Conference in Clinton, Mississippi. It was pivotal…
I hope you’ve been following my series of excerpts from SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING (coming from University Press of Mississippi…
What a great time I had last weekend on the Mississippi Gulf Coast! It started with a live interview on…