It has been quite a while, but I’ve been a busy bee. Thank you all for your kind emails and words of encouragement regarding the editing of Black and White. Things are progressing, but in relation to why there’s been no update, I wanted to share a few things. As many of you know I [...]
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“Why don’t you let us see and make suggestions? And don’t stress over that, that only will help to strengthen that block, believe me I would know! The more you look at it, the more you’ll hate it.” – Karla Gonzalez Lutteroth, B&W critic and wise woman This update comes late because I, the perpetual [...]
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As posted on the Black and White Facebook page… Hi all! So… I just wanted to say hello and thank everyone for their private messages, emails and posts on the page these past few months. This last year has been incredible, but things are now in a great place to resume the final edits for [...]
READ MORE »“I could recall snippets of that Baghdad hospital, but not much else until I’d finally awoken for good. The rest of those months in recovery were a blur of pain and medication. It had happened so quickly, too. Just like during deployment, days bled into one another and then suddenly I was free. Free to [...]
READ MORE »This is my favorite scene from this chapter. A young Jason hunts with his grandfather, killing his first deer. When Jason becomes overwhelmed by the enormity of killing for the first time, his grandfather (a WWII veteran) shares with him his wisdom regarding life, death and human nature that he treasures into adulthood. Please note, [...]
READ MORE »I have included below an excerpt from the revised Chapter 3: Expectations. This excerpt explains why the main character Jason chose to reject his father’s hopes he would join his firm as an investment banker and follow in his grandfather’s (WWII Guadalcanal veteran) footsteps to the Marine Corps; a decision he reflects upon with fondness, [...]
READ MORE »The benefit of being a member of an online writing community is author access. This week, I had the pleasure of reading Black and White in its revision state and was compelled to share my thoughts. Black and White is a story about a former combat veteran returning to civilian life afflicted with Post Traumatic [...]
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Ava Taylor Ava Taylor is a 20-year old Georgia native on summer break from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. For the summer, she is staying with her uncle, Johnson County Sherriff Ben Taylor over the summer, both to remove the burden of her care from her financially struggling parents and to work at Reed’s Supply, a job arranged [...]
READ MORE »Natalie Shaw “Ava, honey, you’re blowing this way out of proportion. Let me tell you about sex…” 19-year old native of Richmond, Virginia, Natalie is a smart, observant girl like Ava, but outspoken and sassy, the opposite in many ways to Ava’s quiet, patient disposition. Her parents are wealthy southern Virginians that maintain a summer [...]
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Despite being jaded and disillusioned by the horrors of war, Jason Keller is profoundly grateful to be alive. After being gravely injured under circumstances he cannot fully remember, he is discharged from the Marine Corps with Post-Traumatic Stress. Upon leaving the military hospital, Jason isolates himself in his ancestral home in Pandora, Tennessee wanting nothing [...]
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