Wordsmith
Welcome to the world of memoirs and novels. Like so many others, I’ve often wondered what it would be like to a published author of a real book. I’ve been a writer for nearly as long as I can remember. As a child I wrote stories but my penmanship was so poor nobody was able to read them. By junior high school I’d switched to entertaining my friends with comic strips. Easily printed words were the key to my success. College was a place to develop writing skills and styles and during my career as an educator I had the opportunity to write professional papers and a newspaper column.
The 1980s brought computers, the World Wide Web and blogs. I decided to write a memoir blog for my grandchildren that turned into my first book, “50 Shades of Grades, My Journey Through Wacadeemia.” It is a hilarious and nostalgic journey of a boy who did so poorly in school that he ended up with a Doctoral degree.
Nostalgia came easy so my next project, “Three Lives of Peter Novak,” is a look back 100 years to my hometown and the immigrants who built it; their struggles and joys. Peter Novak made a deathbed promise to his wife that he would tell his history. This book tells their story.
Three Lives of Peter Novak continues to sell well and get rave reviews. The book is being shopped as a possible movie or TV segment. Fingers crossed. Katie's Ladies continues to move toward completion. See the updated first 1,000 words in the previous post. Summary: Katie and Albert Lhormor's … [Read More...]
I often speak on the topic of "Writing for Fun and Profit. One of the most frequent questions asked is "How do you write? Do you outline? Start without stopping? Rewrite? The answer is that i first create a very tough outline with pivot points that roughly correspond with chapters. Then I write … [Read More...]
Katie's Ladies Chapter One The sun’s rays peeked through the huge plate glass picture window, falling across Katie’s face, burning through her eyelids. The harsh insolation revealed the milky white complexion of a woman whose skin tone suffered from too much time spent indoors. … [Read More...]
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