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Games Writers Play

I’ve now received an electronic version of the finished cover of my next juvenile book, Just Call Me Uncle Sam. That’s when I finally feel

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Writing Influences: Mark Twain

For Christmas in 1960, my Aunt Ella Mae and Uncle Joe Whitworth gave me a copy of Huckleberry Finn. To my recollection that was my

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Cover Art

When painters or sculptors finish their artistic endeavors, they have something to display. When writers finish a project, they have a stack of typewritten pages,

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Writing Influences: Ernie Pyle

Probably the most influential writer in my life was Ernie Pyle, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and war correspondent for Scripps-Howard. Of course, he died at

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Writing Influences: J. Frank Dobie

Writing is a solitary occupation, just you and the blank screen or, before word processors, the blank page. Some would say reading is solitary as

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