The Frog Pond

The Frog Pond is my latest book and I'm happy with my progress. My wife doesn't like the title and wants me to call it Miller's Pond or something with a name, but the name fits. It's another coming of age story featuring Haley Thomas who spends the summer helping her Aunt Margaret who has suffered a broken arm and needs help until she mends. She's adjusting to life on the farm but everything changesvwhen she finds the body of a missing boy on the bank of the frog pond.

Write What You Know

Write What You Know (Share if you like)

Sometimes when you write you can never find that comfort zone that allows you to write without agonizing what comes next whether or not you have an outline. The old adage "write what you know" came to me late in life. I love writing about the memories of places, people, and things of my childhood whether in Kansas City or southern Missouri. When I wrote The Possessor and Rainbow Lake the setting was at an earlier time. The Possessor takes place during the 1950s which some people call boring, but my childhood had a freedom that the majority of people in the United States can never experience. Although I wasn't born yet when Rainbow Lake takes place, the individuals of my childhood and their experiences are an indelible memory and easily fill the page as I write. I enjoy writing about southern Missouri because it 's like visiting an old friend. I see and feel the characters in my mind.