When my first novel was completed – when it was still just a manuscript – it moved from the managing editor’s desk to the desk of a young...

Near the end of my second adult-level novel – the second in the Rebecca Series – we read this passage: The gunman, kicking wildly at her...

I mentioned in an earlier entry that I am always appreciative if an author chooses to work a background romance into a mystery or action...

I have been complimented from time to time on the action scenes in my books, both in the adult and in the young-adult stories. Readers...

If a novel doesn’t end in a way I like, I probably won’t read another story by that same author. I’ve already noted, in my comments about...

Most of us don’t read very far in a novel, whether it’s a young-adult novel or an adult novel, unless we like the opening. We want to...

As the Rebecca Series has developed over the years, my central character has gradually come to be regarded as an unofficial member...

When I begin writing an action scene – and there are usually 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...

All my novels have at least one background romance that develops along with the main themes. Since my stories comprise of action/mystery...

In my last post, some weeks ago, I noted that my wife, Linda, had reviewed manuscript pages 140 - 210 (approximately) of my in-progress...

In my most recent post, I wrote this: I’m passing 55,000 words on the fifth novel in my Rebecca Series. That means I am getting close to...

I’m passing 55,000 words on the fifth novel in my Rebecca Series. That means I am getting close to the point at which I will ask my wife...

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 where he writes the following: I have often thought to myself how it would have...

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

I am about one-third of the way through the fifth novel in my Rebecca Series. How do I know? Two ways. One, of course, the word count on...

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

I know that question sounds ridiculous. But hear me out. I’m reading a new book titled Becoming C. S. Lewis, by Dr. Harry Lee Poe...

By most people in the world, C. S. Lewis is best known for his Narnia stories for children. But he wrote many kinds of books. His Ransom...