As Christmas Eve and Christmas approaches two births and one death come to mind. My older-sister was born on Christmas Eve which we will...

HOW MANY WORDS IN A NOVEL? One Writer's Opinion: As existential questions go, “HOW MANY WORDS IN A NOVEL?” is not at the top of the...

Today was a double celebration. First for yesterday's (12.9.21) completion of Penguins & Black Swans, the twentieth novel from The...

Is there a ‘book’ in you? I ask, why not? Of course your life, or mine, (as a life story) may not be as toothsome as say, “The Audie...

Above is a piece of digital art I created in February 2017. I titled it Ten Boxes on a midnight blue field. It was an exercise in color...

Marie Frances Tippit, died Tuesday, March 2, 2011. She was 92. A heroine, known to every officer of the Dallas Police Department and...

Graphic courtesy of Dallas Public Library The graphic above demonstrates the impetus for the Zoom panel discussion that occurred on...

Jane Covington stands between her husband's framed law enforcement patches and my poem, both installed yesterday, June 18th at the Circle...

This past Saturday, June 12th (2pm-3:30pm) I participated in the Zoom panel discussion mentioned below. Thanks to the Dallas Public...

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I am often asked: "You have a lot of books, where should I start? The answer is... anywhere! Each book in the Michael Grant & Associates...

For 17 novels I have followed the characters as they told and acted their stories. When new characters introduce themselves and new...

Since I began this novel during the first week in January and during the loss of power and water in February I wrote part of "No... it's...

As is often the case when WITD (Writing Into The Dark) characters will and do say the darnedest things, as Art Linkletter used to say of...

To be a creative writer, one must give in to the creator and creation. Writers are not the creator; it is the thoughts of the creator...

Photo taken over my courtyard fence at 6:10:15pm on Sunday, February 14. Arctic temps and snow are not unheard of nor unfelt in the...

I have had requests for lists of, photographs of, and maps of the places Michael Grant, et al, go to or to which they have gone....

You're thinking... that picture looks familiar. You and Jake drinking Michael Grant Margaritas at Desperados! What's new about that! This...

NOW AVAILABLE IN PRINT at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RRDFBN1 In Just before... the 16th novel from the Black Book Investigations of...

[ for December 2020: short story: Flying Car Angst; novel, Just before..., and poetry, Opus V.] For Americans, indeed the world, this has...