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What's new?

July 1, 2009

Orange House Books has two new books at the printers. They will available to buy from Amazon and other online bookstores later in July. Here is an image of the cover of Trotting With The Fox. The fox pictures were taken by Angie Campbell-Johnson. See other images by her at http://www.soulprintstudio.com/.

The second book available in July is the second literary history in the series, A Cavalcade of Oilfield Novels. The new book surveys novels written about the discovery of oil in Texas oilfields from Spindletop until the present.

April 17, 2009

Actuallly, it's old, but I put on this site today an article I wrote in 1990 about Andy Adams' use of a cowboy dialect in his novels, particularly The Log of a Cowboy.

April 14, 2009

I have put up some new images, pictures from our garden today.

March 19, 2009

I put new images up today, ones that I took this morning. It's beginning to look like Spring.

March 8, 2009

I've been too busy with doing school work, writing an essay about Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing, and having a cold to get any pictures up.

Also. I had hoped to get my punctuation book to the printer before now, but I keep adding material to it. I now plan to have it off by April. Here is a punctuation quiz that I am adding.

February 9, 2009

I plan to put on this site in the next few days much more material about Southwestern Literature. My first new piece is a book review I wrote several years ago about Charlotte Whaley's excellent biography of Nina Otero-Warren.

January 23, 2009

I have loaded more images for January. Some are of the Aquarena Center and some are of tree canopies. Here is a tree canopy from Aquarena—

January 9, 2009

I put still more images up today in the January section, mostly from the land. What is the image below?

January 4, 2009

I have new images for December and January.

December 8, 2008

I put on line a website with images and information about my wife's collection of Mason's Vista Ironstone in Brown. I have some images here and others at her website.

November 30, 2008

I put up some images I took this morning in the December image folder.

November 29, 2008

I finished my November images and put up several new ones for December. I've featured art and furniture for the first week. Click here for the December images. Here is an example.

November 22, 2008

I have just planned and begun to write the fourth in my series of guides to writing style. This one is about word choice. I call it Word Wisdom: A Guide to Selecting Words for Writers and Editors.

November 19, 2008

New daily images for November are up. One is below. Click here to see others.

November 10, 2008

I still haven't finished checking over my punctuation guidebook. It looks like after finals in December now.

August 21, 2008

I'm getting close to finishing my Purposeful Punctuation.Writing Style 3. I hope to have it out by the end of September. Check back here for its progress. Answers for the Practice Tests are on the WS3 page.

April 22, 2008

Two new books are now out from Orange House. They are available at Amazon.com, BN.com, Alibris.com and Abebooks.com.

The most recent is the first of my Cavalcade of Oilfield Novels. It is Fountain Wells.

The other is another of my Guides to Writing Style.

March 8, 2008

My first writing guide is availble at amazon. Here is more information about it.

February 24, 2008

I have just returned from New Mexico. Here is one of the images I captured with my new Nikon D40X. It is looking East from the Jemez Pueblo Visitor Center.

Here are others from the loop, starting at Los Alamos and ending at the visitor center.

October 22, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a poem about the oak wilt that I see as I drive to school. This weekend I went down State Highway 473 to Comfort This is still a beautiful drive in spite of the many oaks which are dying of oak wilt. I took a couple of pictures. Here are two pictures and the poem—oak wilt. I have another page about oak wilt.

October 17, 2007

I haven't put up anything on this website recently . I have been busy teaching and working on my books on writing style. But today I took some pictures. Fall is here except that it is still quite hot. These are some of the pictures that I took of my favorite rock. It's at the front of my property. I call it my Henry Moore or Barbara Hepworth. Normally my meadow doesn't have this much grass, but this summer we had lots of rain.

Pierced Rock Pictures

April 6

Newly mounted on the site are some of my Trotting With the Fox poems and Images of the Central Texas Grey Fox by Angie Campbell-Johnson.