![]() ![]() I like hearing from people who visit The Willard Reader, and I appreciate your comments, questions and suggestions. When I am working on a book, I write about a 1,000 words a day. This book brings back Joe Parker, the villain in "Killing Friends".Īlso in the works is a book titled "Extra Wives". Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he. The haunting story centers on 12-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Stay up to date on politics, sports, local business, crime and community. From Amazon: ' The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. Currently I am working on a novel called "A Mean Old Man", about a newspaper reporter that has worked on the same publication all his life. Read todays latest news headlines from Lexington, Kentucky and Fayette County. I returned to writing fiction four years ago with "Killing Friends", "Urainia", "A Thief Wears a Burning Hat" and "The Legacy of Moon Pie Jefferson", my latest. Subtitled "How to Excel in Public Speaking". I am currently working on a book on public speaking called "Conquer Your Fears. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956) 'You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.' So goes some advice to protagonist David in this soaring classic of gay literature, about a young American man coming to terms with his sexuality through a tortured love affair with an Italian barman in Paris. Those who read it (really read it) and take even some of it to heart and apply its principles will become better men. In 1994 in Ukraine, I turned my attention to non-fiction, mostly books on marketing and PR, though one "Portfolio Bubble" was about surviving professionally at 60. 2 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos No Title No Description This book is incredibly thought provoking, surprisingly deep, yet practically applicable. Hence, I divided my novels into "trash" and "non-trash" as oppose to fiction and non-fiction. Doulbleday said they liked my first one better. So, I wrote a commercial book, Shadow of Doubt. Old West series starts with Forbidden, in which Rhine Fontaine saves Eddy Charmichael, a young chef who was left for dead in the middle of a desert. Beverly Jenkins is a master of words and every series she writes is better than the previous one. Doubleday said they liked it, but it was not sufficiently commercial. This three-book historical romance series is set in the Old West. It was a short story that ended up being 500 pages. My first was an allegorical Christmas story written for my then young son. I started writing novels while in my early 30s after penning many short stories. ![]()
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