I enjoyed meeting thriller novelist and history lover Jeffrey Small when he spoke to the Atlanta Writers Club earlier this fall. His first novel, the best-selling thriller, THE BREATH OF

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What can weather history teach us? Quite a bit if you talk to Sarah Jamison, a Cleveland, Ohio, based hydrologist with the National Weather Service. Sarah’s what I call a

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 The April 2, 1913 edition of The Dayton Daily News. One hundred years ago today, my hometown experienced its worst-ever natural disaster. On March 25, 1913, unprecedented storm systems and

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Non-fiction writers already know this: interviewing primary sources is an important component to book research. Even fiction writers do their homework by talking to people to help them establish a

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John Irving. I read a profile on John Irving last night in TIME. The American novelist, who penned his first novel at age 26 in 1968 and went on to

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