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Author Archives: Keith McCafferty

Writing a short story is the key to being a better writer…

Posted on May 11, 2016May 11, 2016 by Keith McCafferty

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 […]

Setting a Novel Outdoors

Beyond the Walls: The Plusses and Perils of Setting a Novel Outdoors

Posted on June 17, 2015April 19, 2016 by Keith McCafferty

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 […]

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