What a long strange summer it was giving up The Money Trail to be with a Southern belle in the small rural community where she ….
Category: Writing
I call it the Mother of All Mid-life Meltdowns. My adjustment from sailboats to country living did not go well. Not at all. The result ….
Sales of my first novel Blue Rubber Pool have picked up I assume due to recent publicity about my second novel The Bird in Your ….
It’s Tuesday morning and I’m supposed to be making some revisions to a manuscript under contract with a small publisher that doesn’t mind getting neck ….
The manuscript I’m working on, under contract for 2026, is due to the publisher in June. It’s consumed years of my life off and on. ….
The London-based Sylvia Plath Society, a global community of scholars, artists, students, and fans who love or want to know more about the poet Sylvia ….
WHOO HOO! BREAKING NEWS. Just signed a publishing contract for my fourth novel. It’ll come out in 2026. (My third comes before then.)WHAT’S THIS MEAN ….
Birdwatching on Edisto was the working title of my second novel but people either thought is was non-fiction (a field guide) or were confused about ….
“FULL OF EYES” BRINGS A LONG BURIED TRUTH BROUGHT TO LIGHT Author Paul Barra goes where others wouldn’t—into the true story of a Charleston, South ….
I found this photo of my younger self sailing across a frozen lake near Rockford, Illinois, where I spent my high school years. It reminded ….
Finding a critique group has not been easy from my roost in Union County. At first, I sat in during a few “Writers night Out” ….
—One part story-telling. One part global nutrition advocacy. For several weeks I’ve been racing the weather at Pineapple Hill, my “beach house in a cow ….