Last December, I traded a flurry of emails with one of my favorite and longtime friends, David Bright. David and I went to the University of Maine at Orono in the 60s. At one point, 1968-1969, we even rented out the same house on Main Street in Orono, which was literally a stone’s throw…
First Decent Snowfall of the 2016–17 Winter Season. (Photo by A. Keith Carreiro, January 2017.) January 2017 is now here! I have tried taking advantage of the intersession break between the fall and spring semesters by spending time on marketing and promoting the Penitent – Part I. There are currently six reviews on Amazon…
“Changing views of spacetime along the world line of a rapidly accelerating observer” (https://commons.wikimedia.org¹) Last December of 2015, I made two New Year’s resolutions. The first was to join the newly opened YMCA in Swansea. I’ll return to this first point later on in this blog post. The second one follows: It has been…
the Penitent – Part I (Cover Image by Hollis Machala.) I am excited to announce that folks can now pre–order the Penitent – Part I on Amazon Kindle. Just click on the word eBook below, and a link to Amazon will open for you to purchase it. It will then be delivered to you…
A Full Strawberry Moon on the summer solstice evening shines over the house. (Photo by A. Keith Carreiro, June 2016.) At the beginning of this year, I made a wish list in scheduling a launch date for the Penitent – Part One. I gave an approximate time of April/May as the target date in…
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…
–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…
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,…
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,…
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…