Trolling the Estuary

Amidst the seagulls, an errant summer mist, and the flipping tails of anchovy splashing at the surface of the brackish river, I wonder. Where are they, the salmon—below below the balls of bait, or slashing through; ahead of the tidal surge, or behind it? The glint of the sun’s rays off the water. Five blasts …

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Book Release News

My second published book, HALT THE CARRIAGE Stories of Simpler Times, is now available. It is a compilation of three novellas and four short stories written at various times over the course of my life. I am excited to finally publish these stories! As the official description indicates: Halt the Carriage is a book of …

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Upcoming Releases

Now that I have completed the publishing of my second book, HALT THE CARRIAGE Stories of Simpler Times, I can refocus on writing again, which is a bit of a relief! (Needless to say, it is much more enjoyable to research ideas and tell stories than it is to do the detail work and tackle …

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Hunters of the Dawn Available As AudioBook

My first published novel, Hunters of the Dawn, is now available for purchase as an audiobook on Audible, Amazon, and Apple Books. It continues to be also available as a paperback (through Amazon), and hard cover with dust jacket (through Amazon, Powell’s Books online, and other vendors), as well of course. This audiobook is read …

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On Literacy in A Modern World

William K. Thayer All Hallows’ Eve, 2025 Beyond the fact that they are all famous authors, what did writers like Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Jules Vern, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, O’Henry, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, George Eliot, and Franz Kafka have in common? A remarkable grasp …

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