The Official Release of Contrition: A Novel of Healing and Redemption
The weather is getting crisper and cooler again on this late Holloween evening in Provo Utah, and I am turning nostalgic with the turn of the weather. I look back, realizing that it has been 10 years since my first novel was published, and all the time I have devoted, along with my wife, to the appreciation and study of good writing. I also realize that you will probably be reading this on November First, my original "Release Date" for my new novel, Contrition: A Novel of Healing and Redemption. It is also the Mexican Day of the Dead, appropriate for releasing a book that is so much about life and death. I have a rare treat for everyone today. A trip in the "Way Back" machine with an interview that features the beginnings of my life as a reader, and later a writer of fiction. And my interviewing the late, great C. Michael Curtis. A few things I wanted to give my readers a heads-up on, a foreshadowing if you will. On Veterans' Day, and the...