Could you tell us about your latest novel, Tomboy? Set in the 1930s, Tomboy is about Jane Benjamin, an ambitious young woman struggling to balance her desire to prove herself in the competitive world of gossip journalism against her obligation to family and friends and her obligation to tell the truth. The stakes get higher when people […]
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The Challenges of Storytelling
The Challenges of Storytelling By: Nev March I’m reading Chandler’s The Long Goodbye and just like that, a line had me tearing up. What was the line? A cop tells Philip Marlowe that he’s been wasting his time trying to clear the name of his dead friend Terry Lennox. He says, “And he wasn’t much […]
Excerpt from Kris Lackey’s Butcher Pen Road
Butcher Pen Road by Kris Lackey, published in 2021 The first chapter is excerpted below. Chapter 1 The boy stared at the ground as he walked out of a hackberry stand, toward Bill Maytubby’s black Chickasaw Lighthorse Police cruiser. It was parked at a closed barbed-wire gap gate under a tall homemade ranch gate. Maytubby […]