GUNSMOKE – Welcome To Dodge – Chapter 2

Mar 19, 2013 | Essential Posts - Writing

CHAPTER TWO “All right, Chester, kick the door shut,” I said. Chester did, and the crowd got noisier on the other side. I knew it wasn’t the end of things.Ziegler was standing in the middle of the room, his chins working up and down as he said, “Marshal, I don’t kill...

GUNSMOKE – Welcome To Dodge – Chapter 1

Mar 18, 2013 | Writing

Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that’s with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of… Gunsmoke.Gunsmoke – the story of the violence that went west with young America, and the story of a man that...

A Western Adventure – Starting Monday

Mar 16, 2013 | Writing

In Dodge City and the territories on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. Marshall and the smell of Gunsmoke… Starting here on Monday, I'll be releasing a chapter a day of a Western novel based on...

Cover Art for THE FOUR EMPERORS

Feb 19, 2013 | Books - Publishing - The Novel - Writing

Cover art is a tricky business. It can make or break a book. And it's always dangerous for authors to have too much say in their covers. But, as with other Sordelet Ink books, I get final say. It was bad from the start. I walked into this art design thinking I...

Truth, Motive, & Tone

Jan 30, 2013 | Books - Essential Posts - Shakespeare - The Novel - Writing

A huge component to what writers of Historical Fiction do is write about real people. That’s a huge component of what the readers are looking for – not just the clothes and habits of a distant time, but the flesh-and-blood beings who wore those clothes and had those...

Virtual Blog Tour!

Dec 7, 2012 | Reviews - Writing

This week and next I'm touring the interwebs, collecting reviews, giving interviews, and writing guest posts for 20 different websites, all through the auspices of the amazing and wonderful Amy Philips Bruno over at Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours....