James B. WellsLast night’s Kenwick Table was marvelous! In addition to seeing my friend and former BGWS classmate, Libby Falk Jones, who was one of the featured poets reading from her poetry books, I shared my own piece. I provided evidence to support my suspicion that the investigation into the crash of the Air America plane that […]
At last night’s Bluegrass Writers Studio open mic, I read from an essay I wrote that was recently published by the Northwest State University Press’s literary journal, Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors. The essay was about me discovering and thanking the man who saved my grandfather from a shelled and burning ammunition truck about to […]
My father’s military personnel file reveals that he was awarded his first Combat Infantryman Badge, the Asiatic Campaign Medal with a bronze arrowhead, and two Bronze Stars, which indicate three initial assault landings. He also received a Bronze Star with a “V” for valor during the Philippines campaign in World War II. In the fall of […]
Another milestone is in the making! My publisher informed me I would have most of November to proof the interior galley of my investigative memoir BECAUSE: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew. I received it in my inbox this afternoon. After 33 years of research and writing, the […]
I was excited to find in the mail yesterday a story that emerged by chance and was recently published by Missouri Humanities and Greentower Press’s journal, Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 13. It’s an essay backed up by field research and archival research at the National Archives in College Park, MD, describing […]
I find it interesting that in my senior years, because of my academic training as a researcher, I have a strong desire to research, uncover, understand, and write about the lives and careers of my family members who came before me. Furthermore, as a writer, I feel a sense of responsibility to do so, as […]
This was made public today. My publisher says “It’s rare for publishers to use personal photos on a memoir cover unless the subject is a celebrity…but we need to make an exception this time.” Thank you Milspeak Books, Tracy Crow, and Cover Designer Michelle Bradford Art.
As readers will come to find out as early as June 15, Father’s Day, 2025, one of the endorsers of my investigative memoir about your life and death beautifully said it is “an affecting, haunting, and beautiful testament to the hole a man has left in the universe.” “How true,” I think this morning as I […]
It’s time to celebrate another completed milestone. My investigative memoir “Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew” has entered production at Milspeak Books. The copy edits have been incorporated, the manuscript has been proofed, and high-resolution photographs and images have been provided to the publisher. The next milestone […]
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if those whose lives were cut short or spoiled could somehow still live the life that God intended and find peace and contentment (I actually address this in my book that will be released Father’s Day 2025)? I can’t help but believe that the life that God intended my parents to […]
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