by analytics@squidxmedia.com | Apr 1, 2021 | blogs
Here in South Carolina, our State Bar issues a regular call for a ‘Memory Hold The Door’ moment. I have been licensed here in the Palmetto State for thirty-five years but as to this particular pitch, I have never paid much attention to it as it is, as best I can tell,...
by analytics@squidxmedia.com | Mar 25, 2021 | blogs
First, a proviso: The jacket blurb, ‘How The Civil War Battle Of Fredericksburg Changed A Nation’ is blatant hyperbole, misleading and a publisher’s (Norton) play to author Matteson’s previous Pulitzer Prize win; note to the alerted:He ain’t gonna win a Pulitzer...
by analytics@squidxmedia.com | Mar 18, 2021 | author, author events, blogs, crime writing, writer
O.K. I’ll admit it. With very few and minuscule exceptions, I have studiously avoided speaking to this terrible, frightening COVID-19 year. Why? A number of reasons. If I ignored it, I did not have to think about it so directly and thus it was pushed to the back of my...
by analytics@squidxmedia.com | Mar 11, 2021 | blogs
emphatically and brutishly prided itself on ‘Mens Room ONLY’ mind-set.Toss in his obscenely cruel, son of a bitch father and it is a witches brew that entices, draws in and finally consumes the reader. Conroy’s writing is at times laugh out loud funny, often raw, sad,...
by analytics@squidxmedia.com | Mar 4, 2021 | blogs
Well, of course, writing is not War but it is indeed oftentimes ‘war’.The words are not going to write themselves. The words must be engaged by you and it takes effort, your effort. You are not Oscar Wilde and can easily toss off aphorisms at leisure. In order to...
by analytics@squidxmedia.com | Feb 18, 2021 | blogs
Last week I participated in an expansive, Zoom (which was anything but…) mediation that would have hopefully resolved a festering, complex case involving too many lawyers and adjusters and a set of facts that felt as though our collective hair was on fire.For the...