My award-winning debut novel, Small as a Mustard Seed, got a new cover and is available in paperback once again! What Small as a Mustard Seed is about: As the daughter of a Korean war veteran, Ann Marie learns not to trust people, including her own parents. While her father rages with post-traumatic stress …
My novel, Small as a Mustard Seed, just won the Silver Medal 2012 Book Award for Literary Fiction by the Military Writers Society of America.Ā I’ve been a member of the MWSA for nearly a year now and am happy to support our troops in the best way that I know how, by writing. …
I am somewhat obsessed with war. My grandfather fought for the Germans on the Russian front during World War II. My grandmother, in the middle of 1940s Germany, held their little family together by herself for more than six years. My dad had the formative years of his childhood in a war-torn environment and …
Favorite writing advice: “Trust the story.” Who said the writing advice trust the story: Patricia Ann McNair, creative writing professor Why: The story knows what it wants to be. You just need to get out of the wayĀ ~ with your thoughts on what it should be or what you want it to be, trying to …
This lovely 5-star review of my novel, SMALL AS A MUSTARD SEED, comes from Tom Clementson over at the Kindle Book Review. Tom’s an American military guy, currently stationed in Afghanistan. We met on Twitter (find Tom: @TCAbn)Ā & I mentioned my book, that the story, among other things, dealt with a Korean War veteran. …
November 1965 āI aināt afraid this time.Ā I aināt some kid donāt know shit from Shinola,ā my father hollered as he stood in the driveway. In the curve of his chest, pressed tight against the denim of his overalls, he clutched a black revolver.Ā The other hand combed through the short dark hairs of his …
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