Author of St. Michael Poker & Drinking Club and Baxter's Friends
This year I've been into reading Russians: Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamasov. I put off reading these books for years due to their length. However, once I got into them I found the writing compelling and smooth (apparently they translate well) and easy to read. I've only found one author writing in more...
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It's been some time since I last blogged. I've been revising my second novel tentatively entitled CASUALTIES. There never seems to be a natural end to a writing project, only an arbitrary stopping point if you want to get it off your desk and into print. In addition to writing I've been traveling and reading. I try not to read fiction while writing fiction. However, I more...
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Down Cemetery Road is the much-anticipated prequel to the unforgettable Baxter’s Friends. Ned Randle raises the curtain on the formative years of Billy Bright’s life, revealing a formula for his adult years that is at once both intoxicating and utterly sobering. Down Cemetery Road delves into the disillusionment of adolescence sadly often shot down by mid-life.
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