This morning started out well enough. If very early, with some damn bird starting the dawn chorus when it couldn’t have been much beyond 4am. Sigh. Still, at work I managed to get my conference notes typed up in reasonable order and printed out for the boss to look at next week. And I’ve also done some rejigging to the Manor Park Mentoring handbook. We’re now three months behind our deadline, but heck things keep changing. That’s universities for you. I’ve now done so many corrections that…

Coming soon

I’ll spend Sunday in Kensington, MD, celebrating the International Day of the Book. From noon to 5 pm the town's Howard Avenue becomes a literary street festival. Planned activities include free rare book evaluations at the Kensington Row Bookshop, chess games against an international master, local storytellers, and the live appearance of Sherlock…

A gun.

That's what's wrong.

That someone, without a felony can, in almost every county in this country, go out and buy a gun and then use it to kill 32 innocent people.

Okay, I've been silent for a long time, afraid to voice a real opinion lest I offend any of my readers, but if haven't made the connection that it really is guns that kill people, not just…

Seems like lately I'll do anything to not write. It's not like I don't have anything to work on. I have a wip that is supposed to be done by end of May, revisions on two books (that have no real time line), a synopsis to write for a future book and another book to begin--synopsis already done for it, luckily

But, when I turn on my computer, the first thing I want to do is play Spider Solitaire. Call it a ritual to get my brain going....It used to be Scrabble but the disc is scratched…

Was thrilled last night when Roger Morris (http://rogersplog.blogspot.com/), author of the marvellous Taking Comfort and the mysterious and much-praised A Gentle Axe, emailed me with a few comments on A Dangerous Man (http://www.flamebooks.com) which can be found here:…

Scanning the headlines on the Drudge Report in search of the latest news about the massacre at Virginia Tech, I found a story so disturbing that I started a Forum topic about it. According to an AP story by Adam Geller, the gunman was a senior English major "whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the school's counseling service." Faculty were concerned about him, and the chair of the English department said, "Sometimes in creative writing, people reveal things and…

Cross posted at my personal blog at: http://billcameronmysteries.blogspot.com

Yesterday, as you all surely know by now, a monumental tragedy occurred at Virginia Tech, dozens injured or killed by a gunman.

An event like this is going to bring up all kinds of talk. Gun control advocates will make their case. Gun support advocates will make their case. Immigration will come into it, because now we know the gunman was a resident alien from South Korea. This event will…

I have been following all the updates on the news coming out of Virginia Tech since this horrible thing happened. Even though I don't know anyone personally who attends VT, this has still left its mark on me.

Events like this should only happen in fiction. No one should ever have to feel so dispirited as to see no other escape than to die and take others with him.

The fact that the doors were chained shut from the inside to prevent escape makes me cringe. It makes me want to…

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