Fathers
Re-post of a Father’s Day piece I wrote a few years ago: Six years ago, on a Wednesday morning in October, I met a tobacco farmer who lived on the state line between Kentucky and Tennessee. He was the...
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The International Thriller Writers (ITW) is one of the world’s largest groups of writers dedicated to the thriller novel. Thrillerfest, their annual convention, was held this past weekend and I spoke...
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Cotton, Cooking, and Books
Greenwood, Mississippi is located about two hours south of Memphis in the heart of the Delta. As noted on the city limit sign, Greenwood is the Cotton Capital of the World and is home to Viking...
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KILLER BOOKS
This past weekend, at the Hutton Hotel, Nashville hosted the 6th annual meeting of Killer Nashville. Killer Nashville? Yes. For the past six years, readers and writers of crime fiction (mysteries...
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Medicine: What’s Narrative Got To Do With It?
In the 1891 painting, “The Doctor,” by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, a physician leans toward the bed of a sick child. He appears deep in thought, watching. The child’s mother, distraught, is being...
View ArticleInspiring Stories from Vanderbilt
As we near the end of the year, I am posting a short compilation of four video stories produced by Vanderbilt News Service. The stories include: 1) The first graduation for a unique group of...
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Painting Memphis Black and Gold
The Liberty Bowl has been played for half a century since 1959 when Penn State beat Alabama, 7-0. Memphis became the bowl’s home in 1965 and will host this year’s game, the Vanderbilt Commodores...
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PUBLIC ANATOMY nominated by the Independent Book Publishers Association
PUBLIC ANATOMY is a finalist for the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Mystery/Suspense. The Benjamin Franklin Award is given annually by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), the...
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Public Anatomy wins Best Mystery 2012
Public Anatomy was announced as the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for best mystery of 2012 by the Independent Book Publishers Association last night at the ceremony in New York.
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Killer Nashville 2012
For three days at the Hutton Hotel (August 24-26), Killer Nashville is back for another feast of authors, agents, and publishers in the ever-changing world of writing the mystery novel.
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