Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.
A true war story is never moral.
It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.
But in a story I can steal her soul.
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.