by Mary | Oct 20, 2011 | DOC, The Cure For Anger, What I'm working on now.
Remember that line from Dances With Wolves? Kevin Costner and a teamster come across a skeleton and the teamster says, “Somewhere back east, his sister is wondering, Why don’t he write?” I’m not dead, but I’ll put it this way: 1500+...
by Mary | Oct 9, 2011 | A THREAD OF GRACE, DOC, The Cure For Anger
Book publicists tend to think geographically, not climatically. When A Thread of Grace was published in January of 2005, the first week of the tour was on the West Coast. The events started in San Diego (sunny and 80), with stops in San Francisco (rain and 55),...
by Mary | Aug 30, 2011 | DOC
This morning, my beloved husband of 41 years made me shoot coffee out my nose. He was reading a summary of Dick Cheney’s new memoir In My Time and muttered, “Should have been In Your Face.” Which was funny on sooooo many levels… A lot goes into...
by Mary | May 23, 2011 | DOC
A reader just got in touch to complain that there were no photos of the characters in the novel DOC. She’s probably used to nonfiction biographies that include photos. However, there are a number of photos on this website. Click BOOKS, click DOC, then Historical...
by Mary | May 14, 2011 | DOC
A Texas reader recently got in touch about Doc. While she enjoyed the story, she said, “You don’t seem to think much of Texans.” I had to point out that John Henry Holliday didn’t think much of Texans. Of course, he was not meeting the cream of...
by Mary | Apr 5, 2011 | DOC, THE SPARROW
In her wonderful book on writing, Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott describes the undramatic way that a new book comes into the world. When her first book was published, she recalls, she expected her publisher to arrange for a Blue Angels fly-by over her house, or at least...