I’m pleased to announce that Pushing Back, the first book in the Boone series, is now available as an audiobook! It can be found on Audible and as one of the options on Amazon. We’re already working on Matching Scars and I expect it will be out by mid- to late July....
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Soft Hammer Medley
Here's a couple of tunes I really like: Healing Springs (Rizzetta) and The Ash Grove (traditional). https://videopress.com/v/Tq80rPXv?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true
Auditioning
Beginning a new creative project requires that decisions by all parties involved be made based on incomplete information. So also do our everyday activities, but the creation of something new can bring things into sharper focus. A few weeks ago I started the process...
The Magic Continues
I know it’s been a while since I wrote anything here; had to step back for a bit. I can’t think of a better way to step back in than writing about this year’s Big Ears festival that just wrapped up yesterday. Francisco Turrisi. Herbie Hancock. John Paul Jones....
Some Thoughts on ChatGPT in Particular and AI in General
Recently I signed on to ChatGPT and as an experiment asked it to write a book description of one of my novels. I gave it the barest minimum of information to work with, and in a few seconds it produced a short piece that I then shared with other members of the Authors...
Last Show of the Year
This Sunday I'll be at Ijams Nature Center for their Holiday Market. It's my last show of the year and I will have the complete Boone Series and all my children's books in both English and Spanish. If I can make room, I'll bring some of my other fiction as well. Drop...
On the Brink of the Unknown . . .
As always. My good friend Jenny would occasionally close her prayers with that phrase, and I always thought it was so elegant in addition to being true. While I am not always aware of the reality of that insight, sometimes I am. Like now. The Boone Series is finished,...
Rethinking Boone
For the past six years or so I’ve been sitting at my keyboard following Boone around, trying to capture his journey as he stumbles into adulthood, and I thought I was telling a coming of age in Appalachia story. Then I realized I was also trying to give voice to the...
Going Electric
I made the switch to electric about three weeks ago, and already I can tell it's a completely different way of thinking about transportation. Driving techniques, comfort, safety, fuel issues, everything is different. For at least the next while, I'm keeping the...
The Boone Series Concludes with “Finding Home”
The sixth and final book in the Boone Series, Finding Home, goes on sale today in all the usual places: Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble's website, Apple Books, and GooglePlay. I'll be taking a couple of copies to Union Avenue Books here in Knoxville, and the whole...