Category Archives: october run

Following Atticus and Others

I followed Tom Ryan’s Atticus and learned along the way. Continue reading

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Literary Critics Among Us

Writers have writer friends. It’s not that we are clannish. More often than not we are quiet in social situations. Until a group of us get together and then, well, it’s not exactly Animal House, but the wine flows, the … Continue reading

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Flippin’ the Coin

This week, I sat on the other side of an interview. As a journalist, I have interviewed hundreds of people. Some interviews were perfunctory, fact-finding. The best were the ones that involved long conversations, spurred and led by my questions. Just … Continue reading

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Beau’s Hot Chocolate

It is deep midwinter and I have just returned from a lovely holiday in London with family and extensions of family. Because Dickens was my first love as a reader, I reveled in the notion of Christmas pudding and “God … Continue reading

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Run run run run runaway

Have you ever wanted to run away?  When I began to write about Phred Rivers in October Run, I placed her in Colorado. I’d been to Colorado, from Fort Collins to Boulder to Denver, working for a client when I … Continue reading

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Running with October Run

My goal was to have OCTOBER RUN published in … you guessed it… October 2009. The printer is prepping the files for Amazon and BarnesandNoble.com so OCTOBER RUN will be available in a couple of weeks. Watch for the exact … Continue reading

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