The Fracking Book


Fresh off an Earth Day interview on “The Book Report” (www.bookreportradio.com), and in celebration of Luna (the Goldendoodle)’s fourth birthday, we thought we’d offer an Earth Day Special! Use the promo code Earth Day 14 here at www.motherfrackerbook.com and we will mail you a signed first-edition hard copy edition of Mother Fracker. Maybe we’re feeling generous, maybe it’s that spring’s in...

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On the same day I heard that Mother Fracker will air on “The Book Report” (www.bookreportradio.com) as the anchor of Saturday’s Earth Day special (WABC Radio, NYC and elsewhere), I got an unexpected surprise from France in an email from fellow author Richard Paradise (the upcoming Living Life Riverside). Cousin Dick” clearly planned ahead for his travels with siblings Robert Paradise and Julie Clark. The trio...

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This is our transition week as our “season” begins with a spring-time return to Rappahannock County. Plenty going on with Mother Fracker: Two new retail outlets (details TK), news on the fracking front in Virginia, and an upcoming appearance as featured author at RAAC’s thought-provoking Second Friday at the Library monthly event on May 9. And plenty going on at the writing desk: Part One in the can, plus six...

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…Out like a lamb!


Posted By on Mar 27, 2014

HARD AT WORK: We had a great day at The Virginia Festival of the Book on March 22, camped out in the atrium of the Omni Charlottesville. March draws to a close and finds us back in Florida … I’m barefoot and in shorts … 36 hours removed from Tuesday’s latest late-season snow in Virginia. Our Virginia friends have officially taken to calling him Old Bastard Winter after the beating they’ve taken in 2014. We hit the...

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Books & Books


Posted By on Feb 22, 2014

For any kind of author — Sue Monk Kidd earlier in the week, or newbie novelist Larry Bud Meyer, this podium is a bit like making it to Carnegie Hall. Books & Books, South Florida’s iconic independent book store. A cherished Friday night slot means a lot. The city was jammed, there was jazz in the courtyard and a buzz in the air. It was quite kind of Mitchell Kaplan to show up in person; means a lot. He’s been...

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A birthday gift — to you!


Posted By on Feb 4, 2014

Hey, I’m still grooving on all the kind birthday wishes yesterday. As someone said last night: You only turn 60 once. Feb. 3 (the day the music died, 55 years ago) also matched up with an important date for my ongoing work on the Tip Tyler series of novels set in Rappahannock County, Va. I finished the first 73 pages & first 25,000 words of Part One of Along Came a Cider. That’s the working title of the second in the...

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