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Researching a Novel
On a Writer’s Digest blog, I share a few thoughts about researching a novel. (You can travel the world, or you can do research right at home. Just depends on your budget, schedule, and needs.) To read more, click here.
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Scenes from a deployment
The Jim Bohannon Show
Many thanks to Jim Bohannon for the opportunity to speak with him last night on his radio program. Click here to listen to that edition of The Jim Bohannon Show. Enjoyed chatting with him about my new novel, THE RENEGADES. (My segment begins about forty minutes into the audio file. You can slide the play bar…
Read MorePTSD Awareness
Today, June 27, is a national day of awareness about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Please remember that for many troops, their war does not end when they return home. “American Thinker” interviewed me and some other folks for an article on the subject.
Read MoreA little research…
In my military career, I’ve always been a flyboy–never an infantryman, and certainly never any kind of special operator. But some of the characters in my novels are trigger-pullers, and to write them accurately, I have to do a little research. To that end, I recently took a great long-range rifle course at Storm Mountain…
Read MoreThe Oldest Form of Entertainment
June is Audiobook Month. Actor Scott Brick has done a terrific job of narrating the audio versions of all my novels. And Scott very kindly invited me to write a guest blog on the subject of audiobooks. Here’s the text of what I wrote for Scott’s web site: You may not realize it, but when…
Read MoreReader Mail
One of the most enjoyable things about becoming a novelist is hearing from readers. Some of the neatest e-mails come from kids, especially those who have chosen one of my novels for a book report. I’ll share with you a question I received from a student. (I won’t put him on the spot by revealing…
Read MoreHollywood Endings
Must thriller novels end on a happily-ever-after note? Or can authors follow a darker path? Along with several other authors, I considered those questions in an online roundtable hosted by International Thriller Writers. Here’s my take on how novels should end: Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls has stuck with me since I…
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