by Mary | Jul 27, 2011 | DOC, Just for fun!
As the publishing industry comes under heavier economic pressure, publicity departments have been downsized and budgets have been reduced. Now authors are expected to generate their own publicity, and I’ve noticed a strategy I think could really work well for...
by Mary | Jul 20, 2011 | DOC
In a recent interview, the question of Doc Holliday’s reputation as a gunman came up. There is so much mythology surrounding Holliday’s marksmanship and the shootout at the O.K. Corral. How much of it is accurate? The mythology isn’t accurate, and...
by Mary | Jul 13, 2011 | DOC
From a recent interview: In an 1896 article, Wyatt Earp said that “Doc was a dentist not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity made a gambler.” Do you agree with that assessment? The whole quote is “Doc [Holliday] was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a...
by Mary | Jul 9, 2011 | DOC, Just for fun!
Was Doc Holliday a highly skilled poker player or was he simply lucky enough play against uneducated drunks most of the time? Is poker gambling or is it a sport? This issue has become important because online poker is now a $6 billion industry. Since a ruling in 1910,...
by Mary | Jul 5, 2011 | A THREAD OF GRACE
When I was doing research for A Thread of Grace, I interviewed a number of people in the Cleveland area simply because I heard an Italian accent and saw a person who was clearly born before 1935. I’d ask, “Where in Italy were you born?” and...
