About a year ago, Colin Kearns, my editor at Field & Stream, asked me if I were interested in going to Cuba. Havana, tooling through Old Town in a pink and white Chevy Bel Air, Papa Dobles at the El Floridita, fly fishing in the Bay of Pigs, and the world’s most beautiful women everywhere […]
Author Archives: Keith McCafferty
Beyond the Walls: The Plusses and Perils of Setting a Novel Outdoors
Setting a Novel Outdoors…better get the mosquito spray… According to a story about Ian Fleming, he asked his friend William Plomer how you got smoke out of a girl. That’s when Plomer knew he was writing a novel—Casino Royale, it turned out, the first in the James Bond series. If memory serves me, Fleming had […]