That’s something you have to think about in this life – another thing that makes life deliberate – you can’t just flip a switch and expect light to miraculously appear. Light is something you have to think about beforehand.
Mama Tried (Crime Stories Inspired by Outlaw Country)
Late last year I was asked to write a story for a Crime Fiction short story anthology. Don’t laugh. I knew it was, on the surface at least, completely out of my normal genres. But the thing that attracted me was that it was crime stories based on Outlaw Country songs. Outlaw Country? That’s right […]
Pennsylvania, a big budget film trilogy?
In the middle of last week I was informed by my good friend and the producer who is spearheading the Pennsylvania film project that I won’t be writing the screenplay any more.
The Problem is Me
The idea that there are political answers to broad moral and social problems assumes that by corporate action good can be imposed upon evil in a lasting and permanent way without the recognition that, as Solzhenitsyn said, the thread of good and evil runs through every heart.
What is a Roman à Clef?
My new serialized novel Hell and the Sea has some people in a tizzy. Ok… that may be exaggerated. It has a few people in a tizzy. Ok, maybe two people.
The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp
I didn’t write this tale and I don’t know who did, but it is in my book Surviving Off Off-Grid. A new reader sent me some comments on it, so I thought I’d cast it out there again for funsies… MB Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up some […]
What is my Patreon and How Does it Work?
Greetings y’all, Time for an update and a chat. My Patreon has gotten a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. It was fun that during the BrainstormATX conference one of the speakers (who was asked about Patreon) said, “It is an interesting concept, but I don’t know any author who has successfully used […]
Pennsylvania Facts and Fun
I had to put together a fact sheet and blurbs for my agent to present to a foreign rights agent for Pennsylvania, so I thought I’d share it with you all, since you have been central in the success of my books! With over 100,000 copies of Pennsylvania stories (novel, short stories, series parts, and […]
Crazy Deal… 4 Novels for $1 each.
Because I knew I’d be traveling to Austin to speak at BrainstormATX (and a lot of people would be looking up my books,) and because I know I’ll be traveling back to Austin to be radio interviewed on the 29th of June, I decided to mark my four most popular novels down to .99 a piece for the Kindle!
Hell and the Sea
Accidental Indie author Dim Hardy, a promising writer with a sketchy past, navigates the turbulent waters during the heady days of the Amazon publishing revolution. From the crowded bars and pubs on the banks of the San Antonio River to seedy agent-hosted hotel parties and sweaty jazz clubs of the French Quarter, Dim discovers that revolutions are confusing and sometimes bloody things, and that friends and enemies can be hard to discern when fame and money are at stake.
Writing what I “want” to write?
I’m going to start writing an epic literary novel entitled Hell and the Sea are Never Full, or just Hell and the Sea. And I’m going to give my best reader friends the story episodically as it comes out. Mostly chapter by chapter. Not some 20k word short story entitled “Part 1.” Instead, this will most likely be released a chapter at a time. No one will be able to tell me that the story needs to fit into some pre-conceived mold. I’ll write the story as it should be written. It won’t be sci-fi. It’ll be a novel. An epic novel.
Brother, Frank for a Buck!
Brother, Frank is officially re-launched and only a buck!
