Returning to Broadcasting
I said several years ago that once I started feeling too good about myself, I’d return to broadcasting. Now I’m feeling good…too good. Soooooooooooooooooooooooo… I plan to start a podcast for Baby Boomers, which would start on radio, then be…
Latest Activities!
My novel Saluki Marooned ( about the Roaring 70’s at Southern Illinois University) has been translated into: French, Spanish, German, and Russian.
Saluki Marooned to be Translated into Russian
According to Wikipedia, the most spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese, then Spanish. My novel about the Berkley of the Midwest during the Roaring 70’s is now being translated into both of these languages. As I write,…
Storm Your Way to That Big Book Sale
“Think outside the box,” is heard a lot in offices, where people work in boxes. But another type of box can be used to escape that type of stifling thinking that we all have learned to hate. Craig Paxson of…
I Could Write a Book About This!
Sure you can! But will you? Listen below. That was recorded in 2010, and the novel was published in 2011. Questions About the New Book Who’s Talking? I need to decide this before I begin writing. My first…
Distracted Writing, and an Outline for Chapter One
As usual, before we get into the meat of the discussion, we’ll offer you a distraction. I chanced to hear a Science Friday broadcast from my local NPR station about distractions. It was as if my car radio had read…
Write a Novel Like Chopin Composed for the Piano
Before we get into the preternatural-how to color with music, and write like a piano sounds-I would like to update you on the progress of my next novel about Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. At the recent Edmondson Pike Writer’s Group, Melissa came-up…
The Print Style, The Radio Style, and The Cone of Confusion
Why it’s so difficult for me to Punctuate? First, let’s look at something that has plagued me ever since I started writing for print. The following is a small excerpt from my first novel: “I broke…
It Was Written to Promote the School, Or So I Thought
In the Fall of 2011, when I released my novel about Southern Illinois University, I had naïve hopes that it could be used to promote the school. Carbondale campus chancellor Rita Cheng graciously accepted the book while she was visiting…
The Deal
The Problem: Is finding a job where I can write my new novel, and keep up with my two websites and three Facebook pages, in addition to: Instagram, Twitter, Google, and something else which I forgot. I also want to…
The Blinking Cursor
And now it starts. The desire to write another novel, yet having only the vaguest idea of what to write about. So here I am staring at a blinking cursor…for this blog, not the book. But first, the table…
Inspiration
From the 1948 Film Portrait of Jennie: Cab driver Gus O Toole is checking out his cab at the end of the evening, and talking with his friend Eben Adams, a painter who is late on his rent and only…
Now That it’s Written, Who’s Going to Read it?
Robert Rickman and Nancy Herzog are the only two authors who have ever written novels about Southern Illinois University since the multiple campus, research institution, was chartered in 1869. First, it is becoming increasingly evident that self publishing is…
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