Category: Writing
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Why so many writers in CT?
From a Connecticut Post op-ed in 2022. Here’s a Rogues Gallery of past and present writers. Maybe I should move back. Or at least keep my Old Lyme Library card current.
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Iceland’s Pen
Iceland Has The Most Writers Per Capita. They also have a well-known writers retreat though you don’t really need a retreat or any other excuse to visit Iceland. It’s a cool place.
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Back on the N.E. Literary Tour
Concord, Massachusetts is the jackpot when it comes to literary and historical figures. There’s Emerson, Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, and of course, Thoreau. Less well-known persons include Harriett Lothrop (aka, Margaret Sidney), Sarah B. Ripley, and the painter, Sophia Hawthrone. Stopping at some of the homes of these famous writers and founders of the transcendentalist movement might cause…
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A Second Novel
I just signed a contract for my second novel, The Cottage Industry. What’s it about? It’s 1922. David Enders, a pilot for the French Army during the war, returns to Connecticut. He’s been wandering post-war France as a nervous pilot: a term the army uses to distinguish airmen from the mass of shell-shocked soldiers who fought…
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Portugal
A Writer’s Workshop Part of the reason for being back in Portugal this summer was to attend a writer’s workshop. It was the first one I ever attended. I think I and the workshop were not a good fit. For various reasons. While I did not get much out of the event, I did get…
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A Review
A nice review of Shadow of the Moon from the Historical Fiction Company. Maybe a little too much emphasis on the wild west aspects and not enough about the actual 1878 solar eclipse, but who’s complaining.