Since this Thunderclap series is in no particular order, the jump from Hiccup & Toothless to John Steinbeck shouldn’t be…
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I can’t point to any one book by Madeleine L’Engle as THE “Thunderclap” book for me. Like C. S. Lewis,…
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In my recent post Beloved Insignificant, I pondered the importance of so-called “small things”. Flowing seamlessly together with such musings…
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One does not simply “finish” reading a novel by John Steinbeck. Not just Steinbeck, but any great work of fiction…
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Writing the tale of the Unicorn was, as they say, a horse of a different color. As I described in…
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We’re in the thick of it now, friends. By “it”, I mean the final stages of writing my next novel,…
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Centaurs are seriously misunderstood creatures. Not universally, of course. C. S. Lewis understood them, as he did a great many…
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Music has always been very important to my writing. I finished my first novel, Gatekeeper I: The Finding, in one…
Read MoreEasy Rhymes and Trashy Romances
Recently, my marketing/business manager (aka The Hubs) did some research on poetry books that are selling well on Amazon. He…
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