In a previous post, I noted that, as the Rebecca Series developed over the years, my central character gradually came to be regarded as...

Whenever I begin writing an action scene – and there are a lot of them in my novels – I tend to get so caught up in what is happening...

In team sports, “bench players” can have immense importance in helping a team get through its season successfully. These are players who...

As I wrote in Part Two of this three-part post, I have completed a major rewrite of the in-process manuscript of Rebecca Series Book Six...

In my most recent post, I wrote this: I’m passing 90 double spaced pages (out of what usually turns out to be about 400) on the sixth...

I’m passing 90 double spaced pages (out of what usually turns out to be about 400) on the sixth novel – as yet untitled – in my Rebecca...

In a personal letter dated June 26, 1956, and published in The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Mr. Lewis responded to a Ms. Joan...

There is a passage in C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity in which he writes the following: I have often thought to myself how it would have...

In the introduction to his novel tilted Winter Prey, John Sandford observes that this story was one of his first in which the novel’s...

Authors, readers, and book reviewers often agree that in many novels, the “evil” character is the one who is the most carefully developed...

During book readings, book signings, and other kinds of presentations related to my novels, I have often been asked that kind of...

Television dramas like NCIS often feature ensemble casts. That is, a half dozen or so individuals “star” in the series, rather than just...

I’d say that I am about one fourth of the way through the sixth novel – as yet untitled – in my Rebecca Series. How do I know? Two ways....

Books, movies, television… the creators of suspenseful stories take widely differing approaches to letting us, the readers and viewers,...

That question sounds ridiculous. But hear me out. Becoming C. S. Lewis, by Dr. Harry Lee Poe, is different from other biographies of C....

In the five novels in my Rebecca Series , time gets “juggled” with regularity. The action usually takes place on more than one continent,...

In the five-book series of novels called the Rebecca Series, almost every major character, good or bad, sooner or later, gets wounded or,...

As of now, I have in circulation five Rebecca Series action/mystery novels for adults (print and electronic), and, in addition, two for...

“Th’ bg! Th’ bg! Dt’r Stf’d’s bg! H’r sh’s w’r unt’d! Th’ w’r unt’d!” What? What dialect is that? What language is that? Well… it’s...

The latest novel in the Rebecca Series, A Fearful Thing, is the first in the Rebecca Series and in the Visioners Series – a total of five...