Well, this week I’m struggling with organization for the biography. I’m trying to determine how best to talk about Gardner’s 150 book titles. I want to incorporate some analysis into the book (a trait that has been sadly lacking from other books) and yet be able to keep track of his very busy life If [...]

I’m spending a lot of time now on the Court of Last Resort in the biography. That was an organization that helped inmates who had been wrongfully convicted be released from prison. Erle Stanley Gardner did this work along with a group of friends and colleagues for over a decade. It resulted in many people [...]

Well, last week I mentioned that I’d put up a new collection of previosly published US Grant short stories on Kindle. Sales are going well for them, and I’m pleased as punch.
I’m putting up a second collection this week, but I’m stymied. This collection is very eclectic, ranging from my earliest short stories to [...]

I want to second Amanda’s posts about the Kindle. One of the things I’ve done with our snow break this week (and yes, every state except FL has snow at the moment) is to put some of my previously published short stories out on Kindle. I started in short stories before moving to novels and [...]

My resolutions this year are fairly simple. Beyond the normal ones of getting my budget under strict control and getting more sleep, my big one for the year is to finish the Gardner bio. I would like to have it done by this summer, so that I can send it off and begin to work [...]

Well, we switched ISPs last week, because we had such difficulties with Time Warner Cable. However, our new ISP (Cincinnati Bell) is not working any better! Sorry that my post isn’t longer, but frankly 100 words will take 5-10 minutes to process.
I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. [...]

Christmas is almost here, but the snow has already arrived in Cincinnati. I’m on my 2nd snow day this week. We’re in the midst of a storm that’s dropping 4-7″ of snow on us today. So I’m off school again today.
The first one was a joy, an unexpected pleasure to make a 3 day [...]

Wow, we’ve been without phone, Internet and cable TV courtesy of Time Warner Cable this week. It’s an odd feeling to be without so many modes of communication all at once. We’re both tech junkies here so it was something of a culture shock to get on the cell phone and actually have to communicate [...]

As I mentioned last week, my grandmother passed away last month. We had not been close for 35 years, so it did not have much of an emotional impact on me. I hadn’t spoken to her since 1986 when she called to find out my parents phone number.
What has made this a vexing time [...]

This has been a month of change for me, not all of them good. I’m just recovering from nearly two weeks of being very ill. There’s a bug going around school that has been hitting everyone hard. Finally, I’m starting to feel normal again after a long illness. While I was off, I read quite [...]