The wax museum in Season Out of Time was more or less inspired by the Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum in Hot Springs that I used to go to as a youngster, but I found out about another museum in my research that really reminded me Read More …
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Season Out of Time Research: Magazines from the Vault
As many of you know, I’m in the process of revising Season Out of Time, a novella I wrote in graduate school. Since part of the novel is told through the eyes of an eleven/twelve-year-old boy (He turns twelve in the story.), I’ve been channeling Read More …
Season Out of Time and My Paranormal(?) Experiences in North Carolina
My uncle’s family lived in the mountains North Carolina, and my family used to visit them in the summers. About twenty miles from where they lived was an area known for its mysterious “ghost lights.” Brown Mountain was the original location of Read More …
Season Out of Time Rewrites: School Days, School Days
This is a sample of the rewrites I’m doing for Season Out of Time. It tells how Jim, the main character, meets Jaime. I’m channeling my inner sixth grader here: It was the last day of sixth grade and Jim Koslow was determined it was Read More …
Season Out of Time: Remembering Twelve
Season Out of Time is a kind of love letter to the last part of my childhood. What were you doing around the time you turned twelve? Do you remember who your friends were, what you enjoyed, and how you felt about growing up? I Read More …
Sign of the Sword Threads: Samhain or Samedi? (The Evolution of a Villain)
The villain in The Sign of the Sword was inspired by a very colorful nightmare I had once. I was walking through a New Orleans cemetery just before sunset. A big, bald black man in a black turtleneck was chopping at a stump with an Read More …
Sign of the Sword Threads: One Wild Hayride
When I was growing up, hayrides were popular among the church youth groups in Louisiana and Arkansas. We usually had them in late autumn when the night air was cool and nightfall came early. Someone would load a flatbed trailer with bales of hay. Read More …
The Sign of the Sword: Seeking Hope Through the Mists of Avalon
For the past six weeks, I’ve been posting about my books and those of friends. I’m almost out of books of my own until I finish some more. This week my posts will be themed around my young adult fantasy novel, The Sign of the Read More …