On Ice Dams and Frozen Pipes
The bitter cold currently holding so much of the country in a seeming death grip brought back memories of our dramatic move from the mild climes of New Jersey to the harsh winters of New Hampshire in December of 1970. For three months, we rented an older, very large...Happy New Year, New Book, and Surprised
Happy New Year! There have not been many posts over this busy season (One since Christmas Eve!) but one New Year’s Resolution is to never allow more than three days to pass without a post from me on this blog. This post returns to a familiar topic-the Stacey...Merry Christmas
I’d like to wish all the readers and contributors to this blog a very Merry Christmas and a New Year blessed with good health, peace, and contentment. I look forward to a new year which will see a new Parker Havenot novel and possibly two anthologies of short...Who Accepts This?
“Brian Strong doesn’t enjoy lying, don’t make him. Stacey’s killer is well known to him and it’s with great disappointment that he will never be brought to justice. Leave them alone and accept it. It happens all the time (over 125 in 30 years) here in N.H. the...Still Waiting . . .
This will be brief: I still wonder what may have happened to the tip submitted in early May about the Stacey Burns murder case. I know that the authorities are not bound to let anyone know what happens to a tip. I get that and I live in fear that something I say or...Writer’s Digest Review
I wanted to share this commentary from Writer’s Digest with my readers/followers on this blog as it make me pretty proud of my latest novel, Cracks in the Wall. “Cracks in the Wall presents with a dramatic cover art design. . . . No issues...The Two Day Rule
Following are several paragraphs from Chapter Seven-“The Exes” in the first draft of the Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns” book. As mentioned numerous times, this narrative is incomplete, simply because the ending of the real...Risky but Necessary
As promised in a previous blog, I am occasionally including small portions of Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns, which is a book waiting for the arrest/trial/conviction chapters to be written. Here is the beginning of Chapter Six. This was...Winning Contests, Selling Books
The photo show me reading a snippet of the first place winning personal essay in the Society of Southwestern Authors 2017 Writing Competition yesterday at the award luncheon. For those looking only for Stacey Burns posts from this blog, you are excused from this one...
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