Well Considered–“A profoundly memorable and affecting novel”–Robert Fleming, AALBC.com
Available at Busboys and Poets Bookstore, TeachingForChange.org, iUniverse.com, BarnesAndNoble.com, Amazon.com, and other online bookstores and by phone at 1-800-288-4677.Reviews for Well Considered: Click to see full review or hover for summary
Cologne No. 10 For Men – “A superb novel of the Vietnam war…compares favorably with CATCH-22 and M.A.S.H. The writing crackles with authenticity.” —Writer’s Digest
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Richard Peabody, Editor of Gargoyle Magazine
"I love the way Wilfred recycles the bodies. That's fabulous stuff with a direct line to Heller's Catch-22 and perfectly captures the insanity of the Vietnam War."Skytroopers CD – Songs of war, peace and love from Vietnam, written by Richard Morris in 1967 in Vietnam, and recorded in 2007.
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Category Archives: Relating to other writing
Benny’s Mission: An American Classic
Recently, I read Benny’s Mission by Stanford Pritchard. This satirical saga carried me away and enthralled me with its story about Benny Wise. So I had to write a review of it: Benny’s Mission is an American classic–part Candide, part Forrest Gump, part Huckleberry Finn. … Continue reading
An awesome queue…at the Gaithersburg Book Festival
An awesome queue of over a hundred enthusiastic fans followed Jenny Lawson from her speakers’ tent to the book signing tent. People were still in the signing line more than an hour later at 6:00 P.M. when everyone was packing up. We … Continue reading
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Tagged David Levy, Days of Fire and Glory: The Rise and Fall of a Charismatic Community, Gaithersburg Book Festival 2012, Jenny Lawson, Julia Duin, Lets Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir), Revolt of the Animals, Richard Peabody, Stress City: A Big Book of Fiction by 50 DC Area Guys, young adult novels
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A Space of Their Own
On Saturday April 28, I took a bus tour in Prince George’s County, Maryland (just east of Washington, D.C.) sponsored by the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center (PGAAMCC), of North Brentwood, MD. The tour was entitled “A … Continue reading
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Tagged African American Museum, Brentwood, Eagle Harbor, Fairmount Heights, Glenarden, Glenarden Historical Society, James Loewen, North Brentwood, PGAAMCC, PGAAMCC Book Club, Prince George's County African American Museum, Sundown Towns, Town of Fairmount Heightss
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The Snowy Day anniversary
“I have Snowy Day,” the two-year-old declared. She had overheard my wife ask me if I had saved the Washington Post article about the 50th anniversary of the book by author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-snowy-day-first-picture-book-with-black-child-as-hero-marks-50-years/2011/12/04/gIQA3a8yUP_story_1.html Published in 1962, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ezra Jack Keats, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Katherine Paterson, National Book Award, Newbery award, Robert Fleming of AALBC.com, The Snowy Day, white author with black protagonist, young adult genre
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Writing instead of writing about writing
This is supposed to be a blog about writing — the process, the products, and the promotion of writing, including songwriting. Writing and promoting my writing take me to some pretty interesting places. However, since my last blog post in … Continue reading
Posted in Relating to Cologne No. 10 for Men, Relating to other writing, Relating to Skytroopers, CD, Relating to Well Considered, the novel
Tagged A.C.T.O.R., Audrey Engdahl, bilingual open mic, Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, Catch-22 fiftieth anniversary, David Levy, Howard Zinn room, memorial day writers' project, open mic at Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, population demographics in Prince George's County MD, Prince George's County Historical Society Book and Author Event, Revolt of the Animals, Saleem Wayne Waters, Takoma Park Street Festival, Veterans Day, war satire, wind synthesizer
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Three on the Fourth
I’ll have to check my past years’ calendars to see whether or not this is true, but I think I’ve just spent my third-in-a-row 4th of July in Cleveland, Ohio. Well maybe it wasn’t exactly on July 4th last year, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcelor-Mittal, Arcelor-Mittal steel mill, Christmas Story House, Cleveland OH, fireworks on Lake Erie, Great Lakes Science Museum, I.M. Pei, Ore boat Mather, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rocky River OH, Steamship William G. Mather, Tremont, Tremont area of Cleveland, Wendy Park, William G. Mather
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Notes on Rewriting…
Rewriting: I am currently drafting my third novel and know that I face the more difficult part ahead—the rewrite. After I develop characters and plot , do all the research to give the story its details and setting, and lay out the scenes in a table, I write the story. That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged "Rewriting the UU Narrative: Where We Went Wrong", 2011 UU General Assembly in Charlotte NC, Busboys and Poets U St. corridor, Clarence Lusane, Darkening the Doorways, Don Speed Smith Goodloe, editing, genres, increased segregation, James Loewen, lynchings, Mark Morrison-Reed, Meadville Seminary (Unitarian), nadir of race relations, Rawn James Jr., rewriting, Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle to End Segregation, Teaching for Change Bookstore, The Black History of the White House, white supremacy
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AWP in DC! Feb 2-5, 2011 – ENTRY THREE: Young Adult Novels
The annual conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs took place this year at the Marriott Wardman Park and Omni Shoreham Hotels in Washington, D.C. My special interests were historical fiction, such as my novel Well Considered, and young … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Diaz, Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual conference, Carrie Jones, Fairview Felines, H.M. Bouwman, Happy Birthday Sophie Hartley, Head Case, Helen Hemphill, Jeri Ready-Smith, Michele Corriel, Of All the Stupid Things, Pushing the Boundaries in Young Adult Fiction, Sara Aronson, Soar Elinor, Split, Stephanie Greene, Swati Avasthi, Tami Lewis Brown, Writing the Young Adult Novel, YA novel, young adult, Zu Vincent
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A 2010 retrospective and a 2011 resolution
An e-mail from a book festival site alerted me to the article from Publisher’s Weekly regarding the top-selling fiction and nonfiction books for 2010 (http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20110103/45644-the-2010-decision-bush-larsson-tops.html). Out of the ten fiction selections, I have only three left to read thanks to Stieg Larsson … Continue reading
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Tagged 1907, A Reliable Wife, book festivals, Cayuhoga River, how to get books on Kindle, Kathryn Stockett, Maryland history, New Year's Resolution, Publisher's Weekly 2010 top-selling fiction, race relations, Robert Goolrick, Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Help
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