Book review
BUZZ BERNARD IS A TERRIBLE WRITER
The first time I received a negative review of one of my novels I felt as if I’d been gut-punched. I tiny wave of nausea surged through me. That was over six years and five novels ago. Since then, I’ve learned to roll with the punches. Thumbs-down evaluations of my works, I’ve come to understand,…
Read MoreWHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU DIDN’T LIKE “GONE GIRL”?
It wasn’t that I didn’t like GONE GIRL. It was that GONE GIRL just never got going for me. I plowed through about 40 or 50 pages of the novel and raised the white flag. Not because the writing wasn’t good, quite the opposite. It was exquisite. Gillian Flynn can write circles around me and…
Read MoreYEA THOUGH I WALK
Darrell Huckaby is a retired educator, renown columnist, accomplished author, Southern humorist, lay speaker in the Methodist church, and one heck of a good storyteller. He also has Stage 4 metastatic prostate disease, cancer, for which there is no cure. YEA THOUGH I WALK is Darrell’s story of his battle with that disease. It’s a…
Read MoreA WRITER/METEOROLOGIST’S REVIEW OF SUPERCELL
As many of you know, I’m a meteorologist in novelist’s clothing. (Or is it the other way around?) Well, whatever. I majored in atmospheric science in college and took a couple of courses in creative writing. I think I did fairly well in them (it was a long time ago), even though I recall being…
Read More“I READ YOUR BOOK WITH GREAT RELISH”
I was curious–and maybe you were, too–to find out how Plague would be received by the real-life inspiration for the novel’s protagonist, Richard Wainwright. The inspiration for Richard came from an old high school friend of mine, Steve Miller. Steve, or more formally, Robert S. Miller, carved out a high-profile and extremely successful career for…
Read MorePacific Glory
I suppose this is an appropriate date–Pearl Harbor Day–to tell you about a novel, Pacific Glory, I read recently that really struck a chord with me. Typically, I’m a thriller-mystery-suspense kind of guy, but I guess I was ready for a change of pace. So I picked up a book that promoted itself as “a…
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