Novel Bites is a series of short stories from the perspective of secondary characters in my novels. This one was posted in my substack newsletter before I started doing audio there and linking them to read here. Jack is Alice's hippie father in the novella Alice. He's talking to us about his own history here. When I got home from ‘Nam, all I wanted to do was forget all of it and find something good. My high school sweetheart had gotten knocked up and married while I was slogg

Sometimes I review books that help writers with their craft or self-publishers with their business, but I’ve been judging books for Independent Publishers of New England the last few years and I’d like to review indie books readers might never find. The rules: The book is independently published or published with a small company where you bear at least part of the cost. You guarantee it is your original work, not copied from anyone else and not created by AI. (Grammar checks,

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A Graphic Novel I'm a year behind in writing book reviews. Many of the books I read were popular and have no need for my support, so I'll...

Well, I sm typing leftie because I broke my right clavicle when the gravel got me coming down a small slope. Ouch. Fortunately,...

While I advocate participating in a critique group to test your writing and get constructive feedback, there are down sides of critique.