Hunting Treasure
OK, I admit it. I have hunted treasure. Not with a crazed obsession like some, but over the years I’ve […]
Book on Crestview brings back a lot of memories
My 20th birthday was the worst of my life. More than two hundred miles from my nearest family member, I […]
Virtual Publicity Translates to Real Sales
The first book tour I ever made was in 1980, when my biography of Fred Gipson, the Texas author who […]
On Tour, Literally and Virtually
It’s a literary cliche for a writer to write about his adventures while on the road trying to peddle his […]
2009 Texas Book Awards
Just got word that the first volume of my Texas Ranger history, “The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” […]
Remembering Elmer Kelton (1926-2009)
I first met Elmer Kelton in the spring of 1967 when my granddad took me to San Angelo to help […]
Small Books
The invention of pocketbooks, those ubiquitous paperbacks no vacationer would go to the beach without, changed the publishing world in […]
Lone Star eccentrics
Twenty-three million people, give or take a few, live in Texas. And some of them are not like you and […]
Ghost Stories
The weather’s cool and the Halloween decorations are up. What better time to sit by the fire place and read […]
Salt Warriors
Thomas Zickefoose had a notably unusual last name and one other distinction. When he died at 93 in 1942, the […]