Author Archive: tyunglebower

Second Look: Order! Ten Stories, Ten Very Different Meetings

From my top selling murder mystery title last week, to my little thought of short story collection. This week’s second look focuses on Order! Ten Stories, Ten Very Different Meetings. I smile when I think of this short volume. Not merely because it was a [particular delight to write, though that is of course part …

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Second Look: Murder. Theatre. Solitaire.

My second novel was not supposed to be either my second, or a (public) novel. I had begun my so called sophomore effort more than once, rewritten it, changed ideas. It felt like an idea I could work with at first, but as year two passed and I still had not gotten any momentum for …

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Second Look: Flowers of Dionysus

My first novel could have been my last. I had always written non-fiction, mostly articles and essays, a letter to the editor, with some poetry mixed here and there. I dabbled in short fiction over the years, but never did anything with it. I had also attempted to write a novel a few times in …

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Second Look: Thank You For Ten

My short story collection, Thank You For Ten: Short Fiction About a Little Theatre was not the first idea I had to publish fiction. It was related to that, however, and ultimately was the first thing I ever published. This collection of ten short stories not only share a setting with one another, but with …

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Looking Back at My Oeuvre

Without having every work I have written since high school in front of my to prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt, I am going to contend the title of this post as only the second time I have made use of the word “oeuvre” lifetime. Certainly feels that way. It just means “body …

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