Newest Review
Murder For Me‘s newest book review on Amazon gave the book a five star and writes: Loved switching between characters as I read and really got a feel for the setting of each characters place in the story. So surreal!! Read More …
Category: Writing
Amarillo and The Cowboy Poet
I took this as I was flying into Amarillo Amarillo’s Cowboy Poet While in Amarillo, Texas this weekend for my 40th class reunion at Amarillo High School, I met a cowboy poet-I’ll call him Warren. Warren doesn’t really intend to Read More …
Making Her Nervous
Blogs Make Some Nervous With starting a new blog about my novel, and life, there are little unexpected consequences. Among them, people around me—including at my law office—begin to be nervous about whether I may include them in one of my Read More …
They Destroyed It
After writing and rewriting the first chapter of my book over most of my adult life, I decided to join a writers’ group. The worst and best decision I could have made. I finished my book at the insistence of Read More …
“I didn’t like you when I joined the Critique Group.”
Eric Theusen is guest blogging this time. He’s in my writers’ critique group and a very good friend. Hes a better writer than I am. We fight about writing, manuscripts, and literature all the time over a few glasses of Read More …
He’s Kicking Ass and Loves Himself
I have a red-haired attorney friend who’s a real Jekyll and Hyde. In his personal life he is a gentle man and kind to everyone. In his practice, he’s a bulldog, and in the courtroom I hear he’s a mad one. Read More …
It doesn’t pay to sound like a snob
It doesn’t pay to sound like a snob. At dinner Friday night I asked my friend, “What do you read?” I yelled it because it was so noisy in the restaurant. Yelling is one of my two volumes. He’s a Read More …
Welcome to Russell’s Stories
The stories begin: This afternoon in court I sat at the counsel’s desk waiting on the Judge to appear. It was a hot, sticky day and the defendants in the audience were too tired to make much noise. A male Read More …