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Sometime ago I asked the question, To agent or not to agent? At the time, (was it that long ago?) my agent and I had been relatively successful. We’d made a bit of money and I was still hopeful that...

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That's me on the left in basic training in July 1980. We'd just finished our first visit to the weapons range. I was feeling proud of myself. Notice the cigarette. So glad I quit smoking! Should women be in combat?...

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You write a book, you rewrite the book several times, you send it to a bunch of folks to read, you absorb their comments, you decide you’ve got your final product, you send it to your agent, your agent makes...

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Most successful authors will tell you they write every day, and while I thought I understood why – they make their living with writing, therefore they must have to do it often enough – I didn’t really understand. After committing...

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Sometimes long hours at the keyboard, the act of writing, feels like you’ve somehow released endorphins, like the endorphins runners talk about, the hormone that gets activated when they’ve reached a physical peak that flips running from a chore to an...

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I have to be honest here. I’ve always had a weakness for men in uniform. My attraction to the uniformed man could have had something, maybe just the tiniest bit, to do with why I joined the Army in the...