Mar 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
After traveling for the last week and having the Festival of Books and Masters Writers Workshop the week before, I’ll be resuming my blog posts about my work on the Stacey Burns book on a regular basis again early this week. I have actually spoken with some...
Mar 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Posts over the past five days have been missing because of my attendance at the Tucson Festival of Books and the Masters Writers’ Workshop. Count an a return to regular postings beginning tomorrow. In the meantime, check out some of the responses to previous...
Mar 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Much of the work I’ve done on Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns has forced me to revisit a time of devastating loss in my own life. As I have spoken with people who knew Stacey, it is relatively easy to sense the grief, the futility, the...
Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
At the risk of offending Stacey’s family and friends, I’m going to post this anyway. I believe that my description of Gary’s death in the final paragraph of The Week from Heaven and Hell could not compare to having Stacey ripped out of so many lives...
Feb 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
This is a paragraph from Chapter Two: A Prelude to Murder- Saturday, May 9, 2009 of Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns. “Hindsight is always 20-20.” This cliché, like so many others, is a fallacy. While perspective can change because...
Feb 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
As this moment in time, it looks as if I will begin to publish Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns in serial fashion. One of my most revered authors (Charles Dickens) did that on numerous occasions so maybe it is not a bad idea. I’m still...