During the same era as the ‘trailer trash’ saga, one day Pa-paw and I drove over to Hartsville to an auction yard there to look for a particular vehicle he had in mind to sell on his car lot. Little did I know this casual jaunt up U. S. Highway 1 passing Bethune and Cassett […]
Rejection Slip Society Awards Local Author Highest Honor Nothing thickens the skin of an emerging writer than weathering the storm of rejection slips which come with the game of submission we scribes tend to play. I should know—after twenty years of submissions, I own a stack of NO as tall as one of my doorstop […]
What could possibly promulgate more misinformation than a social media platform with algos designed to promote groupthink through the throttling or sharing of select information? The gatekeepers are corporate social messengers, all right, and the message they promote cannot be trusted. Resist.
Author Teases 2022 Memoir with Another Chapter Drop Nothing blew my mind like an amazing 1987 college trip to New York with Dr. Franklin Ashley, my first college writing mentor, who carried his young scribes up to the big city for the long weekend of their lives.
Need some help getting kick-started this week? Here you go. “If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could […]
Yep. An indie author with a title he hopes may exhibit evergreen tendencies will occasionally slap on a fresh cover and call it springtime again. My own catalog, as King’s Highway and Fellow Traveler will both attest, is no exception to this phenomenon.
An excerpt from the upcoming memoir Shopkeep, a draft of which cools in the drawer before we start taking it apart and putting it back together again later this year. I suspect we’ll bring it out late next year as part of the Loose Lucy’s 30 year anniversary PR push. This is one of the […]
The Tale of Expanding an Old Magazine Piece Almost a dozen years ago, one of my many writing-journey thrills and accomplishments came in the form of a co-written international magazine cover story.
Author Transubstantiates Depression into Stark Megalomania No question I have put in the ‘time’ to achieve all which now lies before me. A nice little shelf of books, as I keep saying. But more than mere quantity—I managed to manifest literal dreams.
Author Laments Latest Bout of Postpartum Depression “Well,” as one character in Mansion of High Ghosts says after a particularly vivid incident, “that happened.” In the case of the novel in question, the “event” now unfolded took its time—twenty years. But as of June 2021, it’s done and in print. A rocket once bound for […]
