Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome

Shepherding the Bodaciously Series Through the Black Pit

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I love movies about World War II, and one I’ve watched several times is Greyhound, starring Tom Hanks as the captain of a destroyer in the Atlantic during the war, when the US was shipping tremendous amounts of material to the UK, and US Navy destroyers had to guard the convoys against German U-boats. It … Read more

The Late Bloomer at 56

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At 1:38 a.m. today, I turned 56 years old. The thing is, I don’t feel fifty-six. Maybe this is because, for the past ten years, I’ve been writing about characters 16–17 years old and some of their sense of invincibility has rubbed off on me. All I know is, it really doesn’t seem possible that … Read more

3,697 Days (and Counting)

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For over ten years, or 3,697 days to be exact, I’ve been working on a novel about teens in the 1980s. The novel eventually became so long (over a million words, and twice the length of War and Peace) that I had to split it into nine books or episodes. The result, Bodaciously True & … Read more