Hemingway = Paris Beats = Greenwich Village and San Francisco Please. Famous writers aren’t famous because of where they live. And they don’t always live where they were famous for living. Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote in Paris, Key West and lots of other places. Jack Kerouac started writing his novel On the Road at [...]
Life After Combat
Guest post by author Stephen Paul-Campos After, my combat experiences I have faced many challenges, I have succeeded in overcoming some of my fears and anxieties so some degree. Yet, each challenge has its own obstacles. It is during these transitions that I find it most difficult to adapt. I try not to fail, so [...]
Mrs. Tanya: Writing Funny in the Fifties
Lucille Ball, Eve Arden and Imogene Coca were all comic television actors in the 1950s—but who was writing the jokes? Ball, Arden and Coca may have written some TV episodes but they were mostly actors and almost every comic writer who wrote for them was male. But women are funny. They THINK funny. How could [...]
Excerpt from A-bout Face by Stephen Paul-Campos
Excerpt from A-bout Face by Stephen Paul-Campos FOREWARD I found it impossible to fit back into society after experiencing combat. In Vietnam, I had real camaraderie with those whom I fought beside. My buddies and I took care of one another in the jungles, and we took care of ourselves — we had our M-16’s always at [...]
Author Profile: Stephen Paul-Campos
Stephen Paul Campos is now involved in helping our new veterans who need help with PTSD, alcohol or substance abuse issues as a motivational speaker and life coach. Learn more and watch the book trailer at http://www.a-bout-face.com. Author Q & A: Q. Why did you decide to write this book? A. For veterans to find [...]
How to get help
Guest post by Stephen Paul-Campos What do you now if you think you have PTSD or need help adjusting to civilian life? Well, there are many things in place than ever before. First, there is the V.A. hospital there are hundreds, if not thousands of men and women who are seeking help and receiving it. [...]
The Wall
Guest post by author Stephen Paul-Campos The Vietnam war Memorial and “The Wall”. This was the place I have dreaded visiting, since it was first erected in 1982. I didn’t want to be reminded of this war. I have tried to bury my emotions ever since I returned from Vietnam in 1970. It has taken [...]
Excerpt of Journey (If where you’re going isn’t home) by Max Zimmer
Journey (If where you’re going isn’t home) by Max Zimmer BOOK EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER 1 You know before it’s over. This sound that takes the human breath of a voice and gives it the shimmer of steel and makes it light and effortless and fly like a bird made of the clear bright ringing sound [...]
Author Profile: Max Zimmer
Called a raw new voice in American fiction by Rolling Stone, Pushcart Prize winner Max Zimmer was born in Switzerland, brought across the Atlantic at the age of four, and raised in Utah in the take-no-prisoners crucible of the Mormon faith. In the summer of 1978 he wrote a long love story that became the genesis [...]
Chrome Blue: Fiction and Reunion
by Max Zimmer, author of the trilogy If Where You’re Going Isn’t Home Steed’s Texaco stood on the corner of Main Street and Third North in my home town of Bountiful. Back in high school, when Bobby West pumped gas and did brake jobs there, the double bay was where we gathered to work on our [...]