Baby Steps

The more I READ,The more I think,And the more I think,The more I understand,And the more ideas I have. The more I WATCH,The more I think,And the more I think,The more I understand,And the more ideas I have. The more I STUDY,The more I think,And the more I think,The more I understand,And the more ideas

Information is Everywhere!

Gosh, how did writers do research before the Internet? Before Netflix and Prime Video? Sure, there were libraries, and libraries did (at least in recent history) have videos you could check out… but dang! I’m feeling so lucky to live in this Information Age, in which so much information is available. Books? Yep, I’m finding

The Challenges of Realism

Once I decided to place my story within the real, historic events of the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, I knew that the research required was not only going to be arduous, but absolutely critical. Any time an author attempts to weave actual history into a work of fiction (or, rather, fiction into actual history),