Meet 40 Authors & Hear 11 Speakers at Meet the Author Day in Kimberling City on Feb. 6. 9:30 AM – 2 PM Event is FREE & open to the public Whatever you read you’ll find an author you’ll want to meet at this Southwest Missouri event at Kimberling Area Library in Kimberling City Missouri. For those of you who know me I’ll be there, but I don’t have a table. I’ll be at the special drawing table with a gift basket to give away. Here is a video showing last year’s event:  Kimberling City, MO. – Meet 40 regional authors and hear from eleven speakers... Read More

Welcome back to another Write On Purpose book review. Each week, I review a well-written book, highlighting what makes it good from the reader’s perspective and what writing skills and techniques make it an irresistible read. Thus, each review serves both writers and readers. This week, it’s a collection of suspenseful tales called The Apostate and Other Stories of the Contemporary Southwest by J. B. Hogan The Apostate by J.B. Hogan Bobby Earl, a desperate boy with psychopathic urges, sticks a gun to the head of mild-mannered college professor and fugitive Michael and kidnaps him. The... Read More