The opportunity to interview the Avalon Books western novelist, L W Rogers, came after I had read two of Zane Grey’s novels. January 11, 2012 Today, I have the pleasure of talking to L W Rogers, author of several Avalon Westerns whose latest novel, Superstition Trail was released just before Christmas 2011. I would like to thank […]
Review: Black Ransom
When I was writing for Avalon Books, I met Stone Wallace and interviewed him when his Western novel, The Last Outlaw, was released in July of 2011. That interview was reposted here last month. I had ordered a copy of the book to be delivered to a relative’s address in Conneticutt. On the last day I […]
Interview with Stone Wallace, The Last Outlaw – Repost
This interview was the first I ever did with another Avalon author. Stone Wallace’s latest novel, Black Ransom, is published by Berkley and I received a gift copy last week. I also wrote an article about it here. Stone Wallace is now publishing with Berkley and I had the privilege of reading an early draft […]
War & Writing
I do not know why we allow it nor why so many men and women offer their lives in sacrifice to it but it seems that war is always with us. What are we fighting for? I am one of the Vietnam War generation. My parents and siblings were products of the two World and […]
Review: The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton My rating: 5 of 5 stars A book of its time, brilliant exposé of the constraints of social order in the late 19th, early 20th Centuries, New York. Hard to imagine the willful entrapment within these constraints and the acceptance members of that society met the dictates. Wharton’s […]
Cinco de Mayo 4th of July 4th Friday of September
This is one of those opportunities for all of us to celebrate freedom, heritage and independence, especially here in California. As you probably know, today commemorates the day that Mexico gained its freedom from Spain. The Spanish had conquered a huge portion of the western United States as well as Central America over a period […]
Review: The Killer Angels
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara My rating: 5 of 5 stars If there is a lesson to be learned from any war it must be that no side is entirely right and no side is entirely wrong. Michael Shaara succeeds in making this abundantly clear in his novel about the battle of Gettysburg. Although […]