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The Storytellers (Part XIV) – An Interview with Author James Hankins . . .

June 17, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Author James Hankins being interviewed in September 2015 about his thriller story The Prettiest One for Kindle Most Wanted, Amazon’s community for fans, mysteries and suspense novels. (Photo permission and courtesy of James Hankins.)   This blog post is the second of a two–part interview with author James Hankins. Following the format I used last…

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The Storytellers (Part XIII) – An Interview with Author James Hankins . . .

June 10, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

–Author James Hankins. (Photo permission and courtesy of James Hankins.)   My wife Carolyn is a voracious reader.  She lately has pored through all five of James Hankins’ novels. “You’ve got to read this author,” she kept telling me. “Well, why do you like him so much?” I asked her recently. “His stories have a…

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Prepping a Garden = Preparing to Publish . . .

June 3, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Prepping the Vegetable Garden. (Credit: photo by Keith Carreiro, June 2016, Swansea, Massachusetts.)   The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.  — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath   I thought that once my college classes were over for the spring semester the time, formerly spent in preparing classes, getting there and back,…

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The Storytellers (Part XII) – An Interview with “Storyman” David Estes . . .

May 26, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Author David Estes: “Signing books with Bailey the cat—in this one I’m signing hundreds of bookmarks ahead of a Library book signing event. Our cat, Bailey, is ‘helping,’ which basically consists of her hitting all the bookmarks off the table.” (Photo permission and courtesy of David Estes. Credit: Photo by Adele Estes, June 21, 2014,…

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The Storytellers (Part XI) – An Interview with “Storyman” David Estes . . .

May 20, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Author David Estes: “First copy of The Moon Dwellers – this is me holding the very first copy of The Moon Dwellers, the book that changed my life!” (Photo permission and courtesy of David Estes. Credit: Photo by Adele Estes, July 15, 2012, taken on the North Shore of Hawaii).   It’s been great speaking…

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Framing a House = Building a Story . . .

May 12, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Keith Pedro, of Keith & David Home Improvements (Falmouth, MA), is rocking out the roof framing of a local green home† he is building. (Credit: Keith Carreiro, May 2016.)   Fiction is the truth inside the lie. — Stephen King   I have been thinking how writing a novel, especially one that is the basis…

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Unblocking a Long Term Writer’s Block . . .

May 5, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Raindrops falling onto the Surface of a Pond. (Credit: Keith Carreiro, May 2016.) We are having a lot of rainy, gray weather in our area lately, as the leading photo to this blog post visually attests. It seems that we have gone from a very mild winter, especially in contrast to the one the year…

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Let the Writer Beware | Cavendum est Scriptor . . .

April 28, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Flowering Japanese Tree Lilac [Syringia reticulata]. (Credit: Keith Carreiro, April 2016.)   For some reason this week, several friends of mine who are beginning writers have shared with me their experiences in being approached by vanity presses. To a person, they all told me how it “creeped them out”, especially the manner in which each…

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Update . . .

April 21, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

The azaleas are blooming! (Credit: Keith Carreiro, April 2016).   A deep and heartfelt thanks to Bridgewater State University’s Teaching & Technology Center (TTC), especially to Mr. Reid Kimball, Assistant Director, and Mr. Tim Wenson, Academic Technology Specialist, for their patient help in teaching me how to use this site more effectively.   I have almost…

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The Storytellers (Part X) . . .

April 14, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Carolyn Carreiro (c. 1975)   When you write a song you need an acoustic guitar, a dreadnought, to compose it. — Carolyn Carreiro The most beautiful singer I have ever known is Carolyn Carreiro. I make this claim not only as her husband, but as her most ardent fan. I have known her since 1988…

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