Tiffany and Kenny came over yesterday afternoon, and shortly after they arrived, so did granddaughter Hailey, her husband Toby, and Tyler. The little guy turned 5 months old on the 1st of the month, and he is getting so big. And what a personality! Just like I can’t pass up a dog without stopping to […]
One of the nice things about the writing lifestyle is that we can set our own schedule. Sometimes I will spend most of the day at my computer working on a book, and Terry will be just as busy editing and proofreading. Other days, we may be busy with things around the house and not […]
It was incredibly hot yesterday, and today doesn’t look any better, with a forecast of a high temperature of 94°. And of course, we didn’t get the rain that we had hoped for. When I went out in the morning, the plants in Terry’s raised garden beds were drooping from the heat. I put on […]
I have been busy getting things done for the release of my latest book, Big Lake Homecoming. After Terry edited and proofread the last chapters, I sent them off to Judy and Roberta to go through. I got Judy’s back and made her suggested corrections, and now I am waiting for Roberta’s. I hope to […]
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there, as well as to all the mothers who take on the responsibilities of fatherhood for their children. Yesterday was another 3,000-word day, and I am getting close to wrapping up Big Lake Homecoming. I’m at 61,000 words now and plugging right along. Once I was done […]
Yesterday was a very busy day for both of us. Terry was getting all the paperwork together to send to our accountant to get our 2025 taxes wrapped up and filed. That took a while because things got rather disorganized during our move to Arizona from Alabama, and then in running back and forth to […]
In terms of writing, it was a productive weekend for me. I knocked out somewhere around 6,500 words in my new John Lee Quarrels book. Then I read through the last three chapters I wrote and printed several chapters out for Terry to start the editing and proofreading phase of things. When she gets done […]
Sometime after I posted last night’s blog around midnight our time, the print edition of Big Lake Parolee became available on Amazon. Several fans of the Big Lake small town mystery series have already purchased their copies. Long time reader Bernard Wulan wrote to tell me that even though he buys the e-book of a […]
Yesterday, I received the cover for the print edition of Big Lake Parolee and uploaded it to Amazon. That took a while because it seems like they have changed a couple of things in the process that kept getting me stymied. As I write this blog, at about midnight local time, it still had not […]
I have lived in some frigid places in my life, from Ohio to New York to Minnesota. Even so, I don’t like to be cold, which is one of the reasons I don’t live in any of those places anymore. And though we live in Arizona now, it’s not the desert land that people envision […]
I missed a couple of days of writing because we had medical and veterinary appointments on Tuesday and Wednesday, but I was back at it yesterday. I started out by making all the changes that Terry had suggested to the latest eight chapters of my new book, Big Lake Parolee. After I finished that, I […]
It’s been a whirlwind of frenzied activity around our place this weekend as we have been working hard to get everything finished so I could publish Baby Boom on Amazon. We almost made it yesterday. We were close, but we all know that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. When Terry finally knocked […]
Yesterday was another busy day for us, but it was worth it in many ways. We started the day off by driving a few miles east to the small community of Vernon to meet a gentleman who had advertised two old Winchester Model 94 lever-action rifles for sale. One was made in 1938 and the […]
We had rain for much of Thursday night and most of yesterday. Since this part of west-central Alabama always seems to be in a drought, nobody complains about the rain. We all need it. However, today might be a different story. A storm system is coming through the region from the west, and the weatherman […]
Yesterday was one of those mornings when I just could not seem to get going. Our friend Wayne came by to buy two more books in the John Lee Quarrels series for his lady friend, and then after a breakfast of sausage biscuits, I sat down to answer some emails. Once I deleted all of […]
Yesterday was another nice day here in west-central Alabama, with the temperature in the mid-70s. It was also a busy day for us here at our place. A little before 7:00 AM Danny Kelley arrived with a big truckload of gravel for the perimeter road. I had spent a lot of time the day before […]
It always amazes me that even with all of our multiple steps in editing and proofreading a manuscript, things somehow still manage to slip past us. Four different readers pointed out a couple of typos in my new John Lee Quarrels mystery, Jackpot, and I was able to correct them and upload the revised version. […]