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Some Thoughts on Mountain
Posted in Book Research Interviews on Thu, February 25, 2010
My 7th book, The Mountain Between Us, releases June 1st.
It’s set in the mountains between Salt Lake and Denver but that’s not really the mountain I’m talking about. Most, if not all, of my stories, follow the arc of a character from a real bad place of being broken to a place of not broken. If you ask me ‘what fires me up as a writer,’ it’s that. That arc. From messed up to maybe not so messed up. Why? Because at the other end is hope.
My Next Book
Posted in Book Research on Wed, April 22, 2009
In my latest book, (due out Spring of next year) I’ve crashed a small plane in the mountains of Utah. A rather remote place called the Uintas. Leaving two strangers stranded. More about that later.
Last week, I and two friends flew out there for some ‘research.’ Take a look.
Latest research
Posted in Book Research on Tue, July 08, 2008
If you want to see some of the pictures from my most recent research trip(s), click on any of the pictures in the bottom right hand corner of my Blog page and you should get re-routed to my flickr page. If not, send an e-mail to Jon, my web guru, and tell him what you think. Most of my research has taken place in the mountains of North Carolina. Pretty stuff.
The Dead Don’t Dance Sequel
Posted in Book Research on Thu, April 28, 2005
Months passed, I kept turning the idea over in my head and soon realized I had found a bit more of the story still untold. I, like many of you, wanted to read the rest of the story. I found that much of my downtime, what might also be called ‘daydreaming,’ was spent following a few of the characters around in my head wanting to know what they were doing, where they were going, why and what happened to them after the last page.