Twelve Trees
HOW OUR AMERICAN ODYSSEY LED TO ‘BLACK TUPELO’
All writers of fiction depend on their imaginations. The more vivid the imagination, the better the writing. But there’s no replacement for experience, and that’s why Karen and I set off to follow the itinerary of my character Campbell Young as he pursued a scam artist named Wendell Honey through the American midwest. The route [...]
And We’re Back
Happy 2009!
From Tim Hortons to Old Navy, gift cards for retailers remained a popular present this year. If you’re still debating on how to use that Chapters gift card you received over the Holidays how about one or two of Dundurn’s many titles that made it on the media’s many top ten year end lists.
Caribou [...]
Twelve Trees – Opposing Views
J.D. Carpenter’s first literary fiction novel Twelve Trees has been receiving positive and even glowing reviews so it was with dismay that I read Margaret Cannon’s lukewarm review in which she writes that
“[Priam] Harvey, unemployed, bar habitué, gambler and storyteller is a terrific character. He can carry a novel on his own but this one, [...]
Our Very Own Damon Runyon
This past weekend, J.D. Carpenter and his novel Twelve Trees received high praise from The Sun Times’ book critic Andrew Armitage who deemed Priam Harvey, who first appeared in Carpenter’s Campbell Young Mysteries, a Damon Runyon character. In case, like me, Damon Runyon rings a bell but you can’t quite place the name, Damon Runyon is best known [...]
View From the Bar – The Twelve Trees Book Launch
When I first started blogging I had every intention of blogging on a regular basis but then BookExpo Canada, which was this past Sunday and Monday, crept up and swallowed a huge portion of my time. So while I was busy organizing author signings and booth furnishings (”can you throw in two more shelves for [...]
