Coming of age, darkly: Fiction about deeply troubled teens
Best coming-of-age fiction about deeply troubled teens Coming of age is a threshold - but where does it lead? And what are we becoming? And while we grow out of [...]
Best coming-of-age fiction about deeply troubled teens Coming of age is a threshold - but where does it lead? And what are we becoming? And while we grow out of [...]
The best road trips aren't planned, they just happen. Jack Kerouac's On the Road seems to just happen; he writes in an episodic, stream-of-consciousness burst of life. Kerouac is a [...]
As the author of the historical novel Star-Crossed, a title that plays on the practice of cross-dressing, I was asked by Ben Fox, founder of Shepherd.com to share my five [...]
Don't get on that ship! The Bounty, Essex, Pequod, Titanic, Andrea Gail, Sea Wind, Lucky Dragon -- these are names of doomed ships, the epitome of sea voyages gone badly. [...]
Blue Moon Luck "Ambition, determination, drugs, booze, the raging hormones of youth are masterfully brought to life in this great piece of literary fiction. One of the best books I’ve [...]
Bad choices -- we've all made them and they can affect our lives and the lives of others for years to come. Delayed repercussions can knock you to the ground [...]
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird influenced me greatly as a young reader. While Atticus was the hero of that book, I identified with young Scout, a tomboy (as I [...]
Twenty years ago I wrote a novel, one of my first, and entered it in the 1996 Maui Writers Conference Contest -- where producer/director/actor Ron Howard would be the featured [...]
Pleased to share the just-released review of Looking for Redfeather, recipient of Literary Fiction Book Review's Spring Spotlight Award. "Some teens are just unmanageable – getting crazy ideas and making [...]
Merellä" (At Sea) Oil on canvas by Albert Edelfelt, a Finnish artist, in 1883. Thanks to Curtis William Erling White and Barista Uno, shipmates aboard All Things Nautical, a [...]