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  • A video created by two of the illustrators https://www.hutsonphotography.com/InstagramVideos/i-WwSwFPW/A

  • Here is the cover art for the next book in the Harry the Pirate Captain series. The publication date is planned on 7/31/2024

  • I was up visiting Sequoia a few weeks ago. I parked in the giant forest area and started hiking. It was a nice, cool day when I started. I was hiking for a few miles up and down hills when I came to a nice open clearing with a fallen tree that looked so inviting.…

  • Just a quick note that my book Harry and the Kraken is being carried by the independent bookstore The Book Nook in Visalia CA https://www.thebook-nook.com Support your local independent bookstore.

  • I write anywhere I can. I was reading a book titled “How to market a book.” The author talks about writing in a cafe, which got me thinking about where I like to write. My favorite place recently to write is Component Coffee in Visalia, CA. I was in the middle of writing “Harry and…

  • Below is the chapter list for Harry Breaks a Jail. The chapters titled A Conspiracy and and Dont Poke The Bear are only partially written. While I’m thinking about the book, I will have an idea for a scene, and I will write anywhere from a paragraph to a page and put it in the…

  • I was able to read the first five chapters of the next book, “Harry Breaks a Jail”, to my grandson, over Thanksgiving weekend. For the weekend, I brought copies of the first book, “Harry and the Kraken”, with a cover that was his artwork on the front, as well a the first five chapters of…

  • A title has so much promise. You read the title and immediately your mind starts conjuring worlds. I am in the beginning process of doing a first edit of enough chapters to be able to read to my grandson for Thanksgiving. I’m only about halfway done with my first draft of the second book but…

  • Not to me. Seriously if you are an aspiring writer don’t listen to me. I am just learning to write. I’m at the want to talk about it stage. When I learn something new i go through stages. The first stage is learning the vocabulary followed closely by the I want to talk about it…

  • I think different people have different answers. For me, one important aspect is a world I can imagine. Reading different stories by different authors I’ve found that if I can’t see in my mind’s eye the world the story takes place in I can’t get into the story. I finally realized how important the setting…