Ask the Author: Billy Ray Chitwood
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Billy Ray Chitwood
My Nomadic life, my wanderings, my loves, my long search for something missing in the 'long ago' of my beginning...
Thanks for asking, Karen... I send you my best wishes!
Thanks for asking, Karen... I send you my best wishes!
Billy Ray Chitwood
Actions, toxic speech spread into an angry cloud of uncontrollable bigotry and hatred around the globe.
The World ends in loud shattering silence!
The World ends in loud shattering silence!
Billy Ray Chitwood
Camelot! Why not! Give it a shot with a plot...and, write! Why not! ♥
Billy Ray Chitwood
REMEMBERING DEATH and NEVER SURRENDER TO DEATH by James Paddock...
Billy Ray Chitwood
The brutal murder of a young actress and friend of my wife and me... So far as I know, her homicide is still a 'cold case' in Phoenix, Arizona... I wrote a fictional account of this murder with AN ARIZONA TRAGEDY - A BAILEY CRANE MYSTERY, Book 1 of 6. The book is mostly accurate in terms of forensic information offered by newspaper accounts of the day, but my ending is totally fabricated by my mind...the monster who committed this heinous crime is still out there, likely in prison for another crime or dead after all the passing years.
This mystery is still a viable plot for a book...
This mystery is still a viable plot for a book...
Billy Ray Chitwood
Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead... I grew to adulthood with them. ♥
Billy Ray Chitwood
At this point I'm not one of the believers that traditional publishing faces a bleak future because of 'publish-on-demand'. We have so many writers going POD and so many not necessarily publishing to very high standards. It's difficult for me to believe some of these old publishing houses are going to roll over and play dead because of POD. Also, it's difficult to believe with all the multi-million dollar authors in the fold of Traditional publishers. Having said all this I have not done any extensive studying of the statistical data one way or the other. I shall continue to write for the love of writing and allow my stature as an author to land where it might.
Billy Ray Chitwood
By never allowing it...by forcing myself into a writing situation...
Billy Ray Chitwood
The marvelous joy in connecting words into phrases and paragraphs that say what it is you wish to convey in a way that fills an emotional void.
Billy Ray Chitwood
If convinced of your writing skills, stay the course, be true to yourself and realistic in setting your goals.
Billy Ray Chitwood
Just finished a blog interview with one of my favorite author friends - the blog originates on http://thefinalcurtain1.wordpress.com and usually comes once a week and is shared on Goodreads, my personal website at http://billyraychitwood.weebly.com, and on the IAN Social Network...I'm a bit inept digitally and do not understand Goodreads 'image' system, so any simple hints will be appreciated.
I'm doing some 'flash fiction' and filtering through some ideas for another novel.
I'm doing some 'flash fiction' and filtering through some ideas for another novel.
Billy Ray Chitwood
By awaking to each new day and the beauty outside my windows...
Billy Ray Chitwood
My most recent book, "A Common Evil..." is set in Mexico on The Sea of Cortez. I lived at a resort much like the one described in the book and was an HOA president. The book is fictional but was inspired by an actual cartel confrontation at the the resort where a cartel boss was killed along with other cartel members. Some of the personal situations were drawn from my few years there, most of them pleasurable in the remembrance...love the country and its people, for the most part. Obviously, there are problems unique to Mexico, more pronounced and highlighted by the media...yet problems most countries face...
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