Oct 17, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
A regular reader contributor to this blog states in a post response to my “A Favorite Quotation” post that according to a New Hampshire State Police Sergeant, the Stacey Burns murder is now classified officially as a “cold case” rather than...
Oct 12, 2015 | Cracks in the Wall|The Writing Process
Spiritual beings on a human journey? Human beings on a spiritual quest? A favorite character from A Favor Returned, Jennie Proctor, answers this deep philosophical question simply, directly, and definitively. (She should be a favorite character-I made her up!) When...
Oct 7, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
Here are parts of two paragraphs in my book, Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns. They both come from a chapter titled “A Prelude To Murder: Saturday, May 9, 2009.” “Conflicting reports about events on Saturday, May 9, 2009,...
Oct 1, 2015 | Cracks in the Wall|The Writing Process|Works in Progress
The photo captures my father in his race car in 1950, just prior to a horrible crash in which he should have been killed but survived with minor scratches. That accident is the basis for the opening chapter of my first novel, A Favor Returned. Many folks have asked my...
Sep 30, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
FINALIST-2015 NM/AZ BOOK AWARDS Is the murder of Stacey Burns considered a cold case? This was yet another question asked at my presentation on the book project about the case. My answer was no, not officially. If I am mistaken and the case has been moved into that...