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A Dollar in the Jar: Tribute to

Leonard Bishop

When I rang the door bell in the summer of 2000, a plump man in his late seventies answered. He looked similar to Rodney Dangerfield, especially in the nose...

Inspiration behind How the Water Falls: South Africa's legacy

There are two reasons that the subject of apartheid prevails: One, there is a strong correlation of what occurred in South Africa to what is happening now in Israel...

Why write about the Japanese

American Internment Camps

When I was fourteen I came across a book, called Kim/ Kimi, about a young girl searching for her real father, who was Japanese American...

Down the

Buster Trail

This exploration started out with a singular intention of wanting to know who my ancestors were, and nothing more, like anyone else on the planet...

What's in

the Name?

The reputation of “Buster” has a fun history in itself, indisputably so... Buster is an Americanism. It is good and as stereotyped as apple pie...

Africans in

Medieval Europe

I was watching Nat Geo's "The Decrypters," and was awestruck by the founding and research of an African male in Medieval Britain...

If a book is written but no one reads it, does the book still have a soul?

Of course playing off the cliche: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” But to clarify the meaning, in a nutshell...

When lying is a

good thing

I am one of the biggest liars I know. Every time I sit in front of a computer I tell lies consistently, obsessively. Why? Because I write fiction...

Links and

Patterns

I have to admit, I love joking to people that my parents were born during The Great Depression, I married a Baby Boomer, and I AM a Generation X...

What if Buddy Holly
Had Lived?

I have no doubt he would have been involved with the Civil Rights movement. In high school he named his cat after Booker T. Washington...

Why I Love

John Steinbeck

As a writer, even in fiction, Steinbeck broke boundaries of how to reconcile what is humane. He mixed literary prose and realism with such grit and fortitude...

1919: The Unofficial

Olympic Year

The blitzkrieg of WWI defiled the need to host a hospitable environment such as the Olympics, and therefore, in 1916 the expansion for humankind was canceled...

Advice on Writing

Historical Fiction

Writing historical fiction may seem like a daunting task; and what I mean by daunting is the amount of research it can take. And yes, it can take years...

What I learned from the

first year of marketing

Prior to publication, I had already established one blog, one Facebook fanpage and Twitter just two years before marketing my book, but once I had something...

The Low-Down of
Book Reviews

Online book reviewers are becoming more viral; more substantiated than the conventional sources because their posts will always be out there...