The short fiction of j hardy carroll
You know when you see a movie where the protagonist stops in the middle of a crosswalk and there are few piano notes and the camera does a slow pull-in and the guy starts to smile? And then the music swells and there’s a montage of typing, printing sheets, biting a pencil, crossing things out, going for…
I remember a Michael Ondaatje reading where he was asked about his research (for Anil’s Ghost). He said he liked to immerse himself in a place or a time period and read all the papers and books from that era. Patrick O’Brian told of spending years at the Admiralty reading the logs and Gazette articles about…
The bulk of Hawser was written in about twenty days last November. The goal of the National Novel Writing Month is to give us slack-yokel writers our own built-in USMC Drill Instructor so we can stop screwing around and churn out a draft. It’s not really a contest, though they have winners (the way the Special…
I am really excited that the team who brought us The Pacific and Band of Brothers is making another epic. This time they are telling the story of the harrowing bombing campaign against Germany with a focus on the awful early period when 60% casualty rates were the norm. Sound familiar? The project, from Playtone Productions, was…
Do you like a good action story? Interested in WWII? This is your lucky day! I am looking for people to read my book and post a review on Amazon or Goodreads. Please message me and I will send you a copy for Kindle or any other reader. I’ll send a signed copy of the…