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AURA LEE - PART NINE by Robert A. Mills 12/19/2009 6:47:12 AM
AURA LEE PART NINE
“Lieutenant” Thomas Lincoln, resplendent in his slightly orchidaceous but meticulously tailored uniform, was given, by his parents, on the occasion of his eleventh birthday, a tan and maroon pony; and he named the pony B... more
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AURA LEE - PART EIGHT by Robert A. Mills 12/16/2009 9:33:38 AM
AURA LEE PART EIGHT continued
The magazine was tattered, several pages were missing, but the cover was fairly intact: Harper’s January 3rd edition, 1863.
During the forced march through North Carolina and into Virginia, a... more
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AURA LEE PART SEVEN by Robert A. Mills 12/12/2009 6:26:10 AM
Scoffie Goodis sat on his haunches in front of his tent, ten feet from where he had stacked his rifle in a pyramid, upright with Hunter’s and four others, but he could not look at the weapons. Hunter Worboys stood in the opening of the tent behind S... more
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AURA LEE PART SIX by Robert A. Mills 12/9/2009 10:11:34 AM
AURA LEE PART SIX continued
It would, if written about today, be considered a feat of thaumaturgy that brought Melissa Menefee a year earlier alongside her husband as he marched on line with the 16th North Carolina Infantry, Company D, ... more
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Researching Historical Fiction with Diana Gabaldon by L.T. Suzuki 12/8/2009 8:57:48 AM
A summary of what I learned at a workshop hosted by best-selling author of the "Outlander" series, Diana Gabaldon.... more
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AURA LEE PART FIVE by Robert A. Mills 12/5/2009 6:37:45 AM
PART FIVE continued
Rain was torrential outside the small church in Rumsey the day a year earlier, in 1862, that Daniel Menefee and Melissa Mahaffey were married; it was her birthday, the day she ... more
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AURA LEE PART FOUR by Robert A. Mills 12/2/2009 1:29:43 PM
That evening when Lincoln entered the room no one, at first, stood. The tall president, buggy whip thin and equally as agile, stopped a step inside the doorway and surveyed with rheumy, sleep-deprived, brown and tan protean eyes the motley cab... more
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AURA LEE PART THREE by Robert A. Mills 11/28/2009 11:37:20 AM
That was the best part of day—when the sky was brightest, between eleven-thirty and one, when daydreaming was at its best and everything made sense, and what didn’t make sense didn’t matter anyway. The Civ... more
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AURA LEE PART TWO by Robert A. Mills 11/25/2009 1:35:51 PM
AURA LEE PRT TWO
The corporal, Barton “Mitch” Mitchell, was awake and had marched too far, too long, and had experienced and seen too much; he was tired and sick and wanted nothing more than to lay down and die. Twice during the pa... more
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AURA LEE PART ONE by Robert A. Mills 11/20/2009 5:47:23 AM
I was formally introduced to Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 2000, while having dinner with my grandson, Lieutenant (now Lt. Col.) Jason D. Pifer, USAF. Jay and his young wife Krista had... more
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"POPCORN" THEATER REVISITED by Robert A. Mills 9/22/2009 7:49:25 AM
I broke one of my long established tenets of conduct and went to a “popcorn” theater one rainy Sunday afternoon recently and saw a movie: “Inglourious Basterds”—Brad Pitt, misspelled title, flagrant time-warp errors, et al.
My enthusiasm was... more
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Coming Soon! Well Worth the Wait by kg cummings 9/12/2009 4:39:19 AM
Tomorrow they would be together forever... ... more
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Rundog (by J. O. Quantaman) pen name by J. O. Quantaman 9/2/2009 12:46:32 PM
Meet Nyssa Persson, a hybrid Nordic-Asian. Unlikely events force her to deal with an alternate culture where workplace allegiance supersedes families and nurture supersedes blood ties. She joins a den of assassins in the bowels of a futuristic metr... more
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Wai-nani-A New Voice from Old Hawaii on Kindle by Linda Ballou 8/13/2009 6:44:56 AM
Okay all of you cool people with Amazon Kindle readers, you may now purchase Wai-nani, High Chiefess of Hawai’i at the Kindle store on Amazon.
Want to travel light, save the trees, and store hundreds of books without losing a room, the... more
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The Shenandoah Spy: Interview with author Francis Hamit by Frank Mundo 7/27/2009 11:51:38 AM
Interview with author Francis Hamit... more
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Wai-nani recieves wonderful review by Linda Ballou 7/7/2009 6:28:52 PM
Lloyd Lofthouse, author of historical novel My Splendid Concubine gives Wai-nani, High Chiefess of Hawaii a thoughtful, insigtful review... more
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Release of John Paul Jones:Finding the Forgotten Patriot in here! by Robert L Saunders 6/1/2009 6:15:54 AM
I was a bit late in the release of John Paul Jones: The Forgotten Patriot. I sort of misjudged the amount of time I needed to assemble and digest all the historical notes that I had gathered over the last two years. But all things come together if yo... more
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"Which Side Are You On?" by Connie Faust 5/25/2009 3:47:07 AM
It was 25-30 years ago when we bought a record from The Children's Bible Hour. It had some great stories on both sides. Between 2 of the stories was a patriotic poem about an old granny who stood up for her country with all she had. I wrote the wh... more
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Winds of Destiny standard (book and e-book) by Jayne Bullock 4/17/2009 6:41:26 AM
This is my first entry in the blogging world. I have been busy getting a web site set up (www.jaynebullock.com) in the hope of promoting my book Winds of Destiny. The publishing process has been quite a learnin process and there have been a few surpr... more
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A review by Letta Meinen by Bill Flynn 4/10/2009 10:01:00 AM
A golf player & Golf editor from Texas reviews The Feathery... more
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