Browsing all posts in December, 2012.

More Than Gun Control Needed To Curb Gun Violence

TODAY’S NEWS, ITEM ONE: For second time in month, man pushed to death in New York subway TODAY’S NEWS, ITEM TWO: Suspect in homeless woman’s burning is mentally ill, police say Sick people do sick things. They can do them with a car, a can of gasoline, knives, poison and guns. The coming emotional debate […]

Christianity Is Alive And Well In Genre Fiction

The New York Times asserts that fiction has lost its faith. “[I]f any patch of our culture can be said to be post-Christian, it is literature. Half a century after Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Reynolds Price and John Updike presented themselves as novelists with what O’Connor called “Christian convictions,” their would-be successors are thin on […]

Tactical Writing, Hands-On Realism

When I read reviews of my books, one of the things that I am most proud of are the comments from people who know a place, a method, a system, a weapon and who mention that I have captured the correct look, feel and emotions associated with them. The best way I know how to […]