I'm gonna lose these blues I've found, down in Lucky Town...
--Bruce Springsteen, "Lucky Town" (1992)
Monday, July 6, 2009
Guest blogging at Guys Lit Wire
This month at Guys Lit Wire, I review In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick's book about the Essex, sunk by a sperm whale in 1820. Sound familiar? Herman Melville read about it, too.
I grew up in west Tennessee an hour north of Graceland (home of Elvis) and twenty minutes from Nutbush (birthplace of Tina Turner). I've been a reporter, editor, photographer and door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. I now live in a Wisconsin town famous for trolls, write before six in the morning and try to teach my two sons to act like they've been to town before. I'm the author of the Eddie LaCrosse high fantasy/hardboiled mysteries (The Sword-Edged Blonde, Burn Me Deadly and the forthcoming Dark Jenny), two novels about vampires in 1975 Memphis (Blood Groove and The Girls with Games of Blood) and the first Tufa novel, The Hum and the Shiver, due in 2011.
2 comments:
Great book, Philbrick's "Mayflower" was really good too.
I haven't read that one; I'll look for it. Thanks for the head's-up.
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