Venus And Mars Read Different Books

  And We’re Not Talking Science Fiction Years ago, I read that 80% of fiction readers were women. That was before Google made the actual percentage much easier to check. As it turns out, the figure is closer to 50%. But only 30% of male readers choose a good story to get lost in. Both […]

Shadows From The Sun – More Than A Story – More Than Meets The Eye

. .   . Between The Lines In The Literary Adventure About To Be Released This November . I’ve always thought that a dynamic plot is the most essential requirement for any book, a story that holds our attention from cover to cover. All I’ve ever asked those people who’ve read Shadows From The Sun […]

The First Sentences Matter

I wonder how many other writers have had this experience. Two of the last sentences I wrote before publishing Shadows from The Sun were the first two sentences in the book. It took me the whole story to get it right. But here they are: “Ryan Farraday had fought in war zones around the world […]

A Story Foreshadowed In Those Stares

  As a Native work crew pans for gold In the heart of British Columbia, their rage has been brewing far longer than a summer’s worth of exploitation and bad wages. The grievances of generations are stirring while they work. The twentieth century has come and gone with no attempt at reconciliation, no treaty, to […]