Tom Swift Writer’s Notebook

Since we returned, the days have passed double time. Seems like only yesterday it was last week — when I received a make-your-day note from playwright and poet Marcie Rendon alerting me to a flattering review. Writes Dwight Hobbes: “Too bad baseball’s Hall of Fame doesn’t have a Most Valuable Book category. Tom Swift’s biography [...]

As I pulled into the post office annex I noticed something I normally wouldn’t: a guy whacking weeds.
Usually, when I’m in the car I flip on the mind’s auto responder. The garbage truck. The jogger. The billboard. I pass them without much thought on the way to the gym, the library, the post office. But [...]

For a number of years Charles and Marie Bender shared a house (pictured) with one of Charles’ sisters, Emma, and Emma’s daughter from a marriage that ended in divorce. Emma’s ex-husband later remarried and had a son. Last week, I learned that those two offspring, the half sister and brother — people who had lost [...]

People often ask about the satisfaction of publishing a book and the answer has never been easier. I’ve said it before and I’ll probably say it again: the best reward — more than any positive review and, certainly, more than any monetary gain — has been the gracious reaction from people in different corners of [...]