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Behind the Book: The Mostly True Story Behind the Writing of Gumbo Ya-Ya Exit
Another installment in my often painful look behind the scenes of writing a book.
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New Orleans Helped Me Find My Inner Crazy
I’ve been playing around with travel posters (I got the idea from NASA), though this week’s “tour” is a real place. We lived in New Orleans for 18 years. That is the longest place I’ve lived anywhere other than where I grew up (which is a tie, since I went to college at 18). New…
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Why I wrote Family Treed and Louisiana Lagniappe
I was searching through all my posts and realized that I didn’t write a “why I wrote” for Family Treed, my short story in my Big Uneasy series. I might not have done it because it was a short story. I honestly don’t remember. So I think I’ll cover both “Family Treed” and Louisiana Lagniappe…