8/5/10:  Who are your favorite novelists?  A couple of mine are Susan Howatch and Wendell Berry.  Howatch writes wonderful, thick novels in which the characters wrestle with their personal besetting sins and temptations.  I am continually amazed at the way she enters into the thought processes and motivations of a whole variety of characters, making each [...]

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For those of you who are interested, and keep asking me, I continue to wait with strained patience for word from my publisher, OakTara, about when my two novels will be published.  My contract was signed in June 08, but like all publishers, it seems, they are utterly swamped with manuscripts to be read and [...]

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