BVC Announces Beguiled Again by Patricia Burroughs
Beguiled Again by Patricia Burroughs When sexy, buttoned-down accountant Jeff gets sucked into Cecilia’s sticky, single-mom universe, his life turns inside out. Her checkbook’s a nightmare, her oldest...
View ArticleBVC Announces Ardent Forest by Nancy Jane Moore
Ardent Forest Nancy Jane Moore “All the world’s a post-apocalyptic stage.” A re-telling of “As You Like It” set in a balkanized Texas after climate change and bad economic policies have brought about...
View ArticleAn Oasis in West Texas
My father wanted his ashes spread near the little town of Christoval, Texas, where he spent a lot of his childhood. My sister and I went up there a couple of weeks ago to do this final task. I’d never...
View ArticleBVC Announces Razzmatazz by Patricia Burroughs
Razzmatazz by Patricia Burroughs When small town girl Kennie Sue Ledbetter wakes up in a Reno hotel between two guys in rumpled tuxedos, she thinks things can’t get any worse. When she steps on the...
View ArticleAuthor Interview: Nancy Jane Moore
Author Interview: Nancy Jane Moore Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel Nancy Jane Moore pursued both the law and martial arts with equal vigor, applying their lessons to many areas of her life....
View ArticleStory Excerpt Sunday: From Razzmatazz by Patricia Burroughs
Razzmatazz A Romantic Comedy by Patricia Burroughs “WHAT THE HELL?” Alex shot upright and rubbed his unshaven face. He surveyed the messy bed and did a double take when he saw his friend beside him....
View ArticleA Sense of Place
Moving has made me think about the multiple places I consider home. Texas, of course. The whole state, not just Austin (where I went to college and where I live now), Houston (where I was born), or...
View ArticleThinking About Ethnicity
When I’m asked what ethnic group I belong to, my immediate response is “I’m Irish,” quickly modified by “but I’m also Scottish and English and maybe Dutch.” That’s a pretty common response from white...
View ArticleStory Excerpt Sunday: From La Desperada by Patricia Burroughs
La Desperada by Patricia Burroughs She refused to ask how much longer they would be riding. Instead she chose her words carefully to find out the same information, she hoped, without seeming to...
View ArticleWriters vs Truthers: The Big WHY
I commented in an earlier post that I have observed similar thought patterns and behaviors in some inexperienced writers and conspiracy theorists (or truthers, as they are often called). In my first...
View ArticleDisplacement
I heard part of a piece about Wendell Berry on NPR the other day. It focused on the importance of knowing the place where you’re from. In the piece, Laura Dunn, who recently made a film about Berry...
View ArticleTexas Road Trip
My sweetheart Jim had a conference in Houston. It happens that I was born in that city and raised in a small town just outside it, so when he expressed an interest in seeing where I grew up, I had to...
View ArticleThe Tricoastal Woman Thinks About History and Racism
Of all the election victories out there, here’s the one that moved me the most: 19 African American women ran as Democrats for judgeships, most for positions in Harris County, Texas (Houston). 17 of...
View ArticleWhat’s the Matter With Texas?
by Nancy Jane Moore Texans don’t have much use for ideas. Or at least, that’s what the eminent historian T.R. Fehrenbach says. In an essay in November’s Texas Monthly, he observes: [T]he people who...
View ArticleBVC Announces Ardent Forest by Nancy Jane Moore
Ardent Forest Nancy Jane Moore “All the world’s a post-apocalyptic stage.” A re-telling of “As You Like It” set in a balkanized Texas after climate change and bad economic policies have brought about...
View ArticleAn Oasis in West Texas
My father wanted his ashes spread near the little town of Christoval, Texas, where he spent a lot of his childhood. My sister and I went up there a couple of weeks ago to do this final task. I’d never...
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