I greeted the New Year a little unhappy
As, in the middle of my vacation, I caught my annual cold (and that virus was a tenacious bastard, let me tell you). But, 2019 is gonna be great. Hint: New covers. Hint two: new blurbs. “The Old World”…
Well, hush my mouth
THE JOHN MILIUS SCREENWRITING AWARD We are pleased to announce that the winner of the FEATURE FILM category of the TalNexus SmashCut Screenplay Competition will be honored with The John Milius Screenwriting Award. John Milius is one among the few iconic screenwriters…
“Ringside at the Circus of the Fallen”
That's the title of the final book in my "By the Hands of Men" series. Doing final edits on the text now. In case anyone is interested.
Novel Research: It ain’t all glory.
Today, my wife Alisa and I were out and about in the woods of East Texas, doing research for my next project (which I can't really tell you about...I want y'all to be surprised when you read it...I'm sure you…
A New Unit of Measurement
I was happily showing my 24-year-old son, Cameron, the draft ms of By the Hands of Men, Book Four: Ringside at the Circus of the Fallen. All 109,000 words and 367 pages. He took a look at and, apparently unimpressed, observed:…
Just finished the first of the last
Actually, it was last week, but I've been too busy with other (secret) projects to announce it. But I've finished the first draft of the final book in my "By the Hands of Men" series. Working title: "Ringside at the…
“I found myself ‘finding’ ‘creating’ and ‘needing’ time to read.”
Awfully kind praise from novelist and blogger Connie Huddleston: I needed to read an adult book. I chose a very good one. I found myself “finding” “creating” and “needing” time to read. Being an historian, I have studied The Great…
Antifa: A New KKK for Woke DemocratsToday!
LibProgs have gone insane over the realization that half of America voted for the wrong candidate. This election belonged to the Democrats. The 1000-year Reich Reign Of Enlightenment was within their grasp. The Living Constitution would be beaten into…
Found a buck on the side of the road
It's one of the reasons to love the part of East Texas where we live.
The Paper of Record Just Recorded They’re All Right with Racism. Really.
Or: “The black people were surprisingly good last night…”
One of my personal failings (well, the only one I feel like admitting) is I have a strong fairness impulse. It was the whole Martin Luther King thing, judge people by the content of the character not the color of the skin. My father, who had grown up in the deep South surrounded by virulent racism, introduced me to the concept, mostly by the way he lived his life, treating everyone he met with the same courtesy, fairness, and respect. It was what made me a nascent liberal as a young man.
That belief in fairness was the same thing that drove me away from Liberals. Growing up, my experiences with