Category Archives: october run
Following Atticus and Others
I followed Tom Ryan’s Atticus and learned along the way. Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
