Me, Myself, and I
I've been around for quite awhile (I'm a septuagenarian), and although I can't quite explain how I got here, I'm glad I did. At the present time I live in Holly Springs, Mississippi, with my wife Sharon and three cats (one indoor and two outdoor). We have a ten-acre place on the edge of town that keeps us busy. Some would say that I do not need all of this yard work, but I think it's good therapy, since I tend to be paranoid sometimes and suseptible to cabin fever. My writing schedule begins around five every day and continues until I am repeating myself or tossing everything I write into the wastebasket.Since I'm convinced that life as I know it is a tragic trick some god has played on me, I tend to write in a lighthearted vein, tongue-in-cheek. Some people that I know quite well do not know that I have a sense of humor, but I have learned that you cannot explain your jokes, or you are dead. I live among people who do not write or have a clue about what is required of a serious writer. And that's probably as it should be. Thanks for visiting my website. |
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Me as a Webmaster
Actually, this is my fourth website. When I'm not in the mood to write biological fiction, I like to create websites. I am not a professional Webmaster, by a long shot; but I know some html and I have found that by using Simple Text and a few graphics (images) I can do exciting things on a web page. The secret is html, that simplest of computer languages; and if you've got that and a little patience and perhaps a bit of stubbornness, you'll do okay. I have found that linking is the key to selling my books. I have not advertised much, and my publisher does not voluntarily advertise for me; so I link with as many writers (and readers) as I can, convinced that any kind of exposure is better than no exposure at all.
My World and Welcome To It
I live in a world of books and writing. Nothing else, I'm afraid, makes much sense to me. Television is always there but mostly it is a bother and a waste of time for me.
For about forty years I taught English (on all the levels except elementary and middle school), and during that time I tried to find time to write what was inside me and had to come out. When I retired (emeritus professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University), at the age of 62, I had written (but not published) a veritable orange crate of stuff that ranged from biographical to pure fiction and even poetry. A few times I was very close to publishing something that I had written, but it wasn't until after I retired that I found a publisher that would publish anything I had written (and was willing to attach my name to).At this point I have published eleven books, including one nonfiction (The Hall Tree, An American Family History), two collections of short stories (The Hungry Hills and Eagles & Canaries), three books about WWII and the aftermath (The Splendid Five; Kilroy, Home from the War; and The Hooligan Navy), one Western (Hard to Kill), one political satire (Madam President), two biographical fictions about my childhood (The River Bend and Cain McGee, Junior G-Man), and a romance thriller that begins and ends in the Fijis (Yesterday's Child).
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