When it comes to blending my personal history into my fiction, I brought out a few extras this time. I grew up in Amarillo Texas, from first grade through two years at Amarillo College. When I finally gave in the requests from friends and family to write a story set in Amarillo, I decided to… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Beneath The Amarillo Plains
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My Favorite Book: Breaking Anchor
It would make my life easier if I just wrote one kind of novel — some easily classifiable category. Many of mine fit my Small Towns, Big Ideas label, but some do not. This is one. Chicago isn’t a small town. Traveling brought me many times through the Chicago area, and I was fascinated by… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Breaking Anchor
My Favorite Book: The Copper Room
My wife is a workaholic. She always schedules more than a reasonable person can accomplish. So one idle science-fictiony thought caught in her brain and she mentioned it over and over for years — the idea of a room where you could go inside and time outside would stop. It’s a place where you could… Continue reading My Favorite Book: The Copper Room