The first novel in the TEXAS OUTLAW SERIES is the true story of the Robinhood of Texas… Sam Bass. This novel was written in a creative nonfiction genre which adds characterization to the writing so that the reader becomes involved and can more truly relate to the subject. In this case, Samuel Bass. Pure nonfiction
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WHY DO I WRITE CREATIVE NONFICTION? How many of us have struggled during our childhood through the date-pocketed course of history, uninterested, disenchanted, and just waiting only for the end of the cobwebbed test of time. We find, in our later years in life, that history is actually the most fascinating and stimulating of all
Hello Everyone. In preparation for my book signing tour for 2019, it is important that your reviews are added to Amazon on any books you purchased or downloaded through a weekend promotion for free. By the end of the year, these reviews will be used to determine which books I will take on tour. Your
Creative Nonfiction – Putting the Pieces Together Like Studying Genealogy MARY ELIZABETH SURRATT (Free on Kindle April 16-21, 2018) Before launching my two dozen or so novels, many of which are written as creative nonfiction, I became a professional genealogist. One of the most critical aspects of this field is putting pieces of a puzzle
The Trial of the Century in Six Volumes When beginning to write the six novels covering the Abraham Lincoln Assassination Trial of the Century in 1865, I learned more about “history” than I could ever have imagined. In one of my novels written in 2017, The Rose of Brays Bayou, a story about how brave
THE SIDNEY ST. JAMES SHOW 