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“How did you come up with this story?”

After reading or hearing about Lying in Judgment, my first novel, people often ask, “How did you come up with this story?” The truth is, this story was inspired by an experience of a friend of mine who was then serving on a jury for a violent crime in Washington, DC. We were talking at…

Letting Go: The Voice of Valor

This week I am pursuing very new paths in my writing journey — and the phrase “journey” can be taken both figuratively and literally.

Can a man presume to write from a woman’s point of view?

A Woman of Valor represented a major departure for me as a writer in a number of ways. Some may applaud what I’ve attempted; others may take issue with it. First, at the most superficial level, I switched sub-genres (from legal thrillers and mysteries to “police procedural”) and begin an entirely new series with new…

Here comes the bride – to a bookstore near you

Lehigh Carter, the Mountain Man is back! And this time, he’s pissed. And why wouldn’t he be? The crooked sheriff’s department now has even more partners in crime, and they’ve locked up his fiancee, Stacy McBride, accusing her of murdering popular acting sheriff Jared Barkley. He knows it’s a frame-up…or so he thinks at the…

Make 2017 Better Than 2016 With Books

2016 sucked, right? And if you’re like me, you want 2017 to turn that around. Well, we can. All we have to do is buy more books. Here are ten reasons why buying more books will make 2017 better than 2016. 1. Let’s start with 2016 being so sucky. That’s the real world. Well, who…

Lying in Judgment - a novel by Gary Corbin. Photo by Gary Corbin.

Lying in Judgment (novel) coming to life!

It’s coming. The Novel. After ten years of outlining, writing, critiquing, rewriting (even, once, as a play), workshopping, pitching, revising, editing, querying, and waiting for a dying industry (traditional publishing) to embrace my creation, it is coming to life. Lying in Judgment, my legal thriller about a man serving on the jury of a murder…

Why I Write

This short selfie video for The Cantilever Project gives you a look under the hood on what keeps my writing engine going.

Play write vs. Playwright

Playwright, or play writer? That is the question. For most of us who are engaged in this fascinating, collaborative creative exercise, the answer is the latter. Certainly this is true for me. I write plays. I do not wright plays. And there’s a difference. Play writers write plays. We create characters, plots, scenes, and dialog….

Pride goeth before the curtain

Tonight I’m attending a read-thru of my new (draft) play for Fertile Ground. It’s the second time in less than a week, and if this one goes like the first, a talented, experienced group of actors will ready my unfinished script and give me critical feedback. Probably very critical. I can’t wait. Some playwrights hesitate…

Lessons 14 and 15: Keep telling your story

I’ve spent a good part of the last decade or two helping people improve the technical quality of their writing, be it a novel, memoir, technical document or even just a chart or graph. Elsewhere on this website, you can download my top 13 tips to fix mistakes that good writers make and benefit from…

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