During class last week, one of my students asked about the importance of creating a character for our stories. I responded with this quote: “For me, the novel is character creation. Style is nice, plot is nice, structure is OK, social significance is OK, symbolism worms its way in, timeliness is OK too, but unless […]
Ground Fiction
What’s YOUR Story?
“Don’t ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that’s what they’re there for. Use your library). Don’t apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend’s copy. What’s important to me is that people read the […]
High Rises and Hard Falls
Edlund Design does it again. When I was developing a media presence for my work featuring Adrian Tannhauser, I turned to Nick Edlund, one of my oldest and dearest friends for the visuals. Edlund Design specializes in creative and effective design for print and digital media. Nick reads each of the Tannhauser stories, zeroes in […]
The Sound of Ground – An Interview and Reading by Yours Truly
I did an interview today with Seth Harwood discussing the evolution of private eye Adrian Tannhauser, a little bit of my own evolution, and I even read a little bit from my first published short story “Green River.” Check it out right here! Would you say that he’s (Adrian Tannhauser) out of the mold of […]
More Ground to Cover!
Volume 2, Issue 1 from Ground Fiction is coming! This new issue presents twelve short stories, including “Jesse Belden”, a never-before-seen excerpt from Valentine by New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Wetmore. Valentine: A Novel explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town in the 1970s. It […]
