Jackson, Mississippi. As a child and teenager I witnessed how many of the wealthiest and poorest people in the south lived. I learned that poor and rich alike have warm hearts and ambitions. Some of the most wonderful people I have ever met were poor. I also learned that although many people try hard to succeed not everyone becomes wealthy or successful. The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is sometimes very minute. Southerners taught me that there are few places better in the world to live, and that warm and gracious people are all around us if we just look. People in other parts of the U.S.A. and the world would be shocked if they knew how beautiful Mississippi really is.

In college at Mississippi State University in 1963, but I thought that a major in English was not for me. Rodeo, horses, women, beer, and music were more important at 19 years old.

A seventeen million dollar Ponzi scheme which was run by one of our ex church members, a former deacon and Sunday school teacher. The fraud devastated a lot of people financially, mostly elderly who believed in the perpetrator of the fraud. Many of these elderly people lost everything they had while the con man lived like a wealthy baron.

The chance to help other investors, young and old, watch out for what may appear to be a good investment and wolves in sheep's clothing. Also, how our faith can get us through tough times and events.

By getting my story to the masses.

Getting in a quite place and letting my mind go and putting down words and expressions that mean something. You can create a whole new world in a story or convey things that actually happened.

A novel about a starving high school champion cowboy who can't win when he joins the professional rodeo circuit until he meets an older, eccentric cowboy and his trusted sidekick.

As my writing teacher taught----Think about the story and imagine the story, write your notes, build a house room by room of the story, make a rough draft, correct the rough draft over and over, then write the story.

Yes. It was the story of Jesus, and I still read and learn as much as I can. The history channel helps a lot.

Make it depict a part of the story as much as possible.

Fairly neat in a remote part of the house.

Internet

Yes. In my freshman year of college. I was 18 years old and really didn't know what I wanted in life. I was majoring in English at Mississippi State University, and I wrote my first short story about a horse and horse trainer. When I began writing I totally got lost in the story and my mind was completely consumed with it. I heard nothing outside or inside the dormitory until well after the story was written. It was exciting to know that I could actually do that and love it.
The professor gave me an A+. Even more rewarding were two things my father did for me. During elementary school I was horrible at English, and both my speech and grades embarrassed him. He often said, "You are crucifying the English language." He despised hearing anyone speak incorrectly, and I did regularly. The summer after the sixth grade he hired a young man who was working on his doctorate in English, and he tutored me all summer one on one, every day. When I began the seventh grade I was at a tenth grade English level, and all of a sudden I loved English classes. It is a shame how poorly many people speak. The second thing he did was tell me that he would no longer pay for my college education after I didn't take but one final exam at the end of my freshman year, and I flunked it. Four zeros and one F is what my report card showed when he got it in the mail. I was so afraid that he would ring my neck, or worse, that I chickened out and took a job in Wyoming as a cowboy before he saw my grades. I didn't hear from him for three months, and then the letter arrived in Jackson Hole. It said, "I will never pay for any more education for you since the only thing you learned in college was how to drink beer, cut classes, play guitar, chase women, and gamble." I knew that I had really hurt his feelings and threw away a great opportunity. I sat out a year and bought and sold enough horses to pay my tuition and then went back to college. I made good grades from then on when it was my money I was spending. It was a great lesson in life.

Mostly non fiction and occasionally fiction.

The Bible ------------------------------------------ It is the operators manual of how we should live our lives.
The Rainbow Trail ------------------------- It makes the reader feel like he is there
The Old Man and The Sea-------------------- When the old man gets back to shore he is not concerned about what people think and you can picture the skeleton of the big fish.
To Have and Have Not ------------------------- It is written with expression.
Christmas Stories From Mississippi ---------- Wonderful author.

Internet and Smashwords

Zane Gray
Earnest Hemingway
Judy Tucker

Before I get out of bed I am thinking about what I should do each day.

Golf, reading, keeping up with rodeo happenings, and trying to keep up with my wife who is the busiest woman I have ever seen. She can't be still for long.

Jesus

I always thought that places like Paris, Rome, Italy, Canada, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and many places would be the most beautiful, but I was wrong. After traveling all over the world and seeing vast economic conditions and landscapes I was convinced that the most beautiful place in the world is the southeastern part of the United States. It is not only beautiful, its people are warm, friendly, and caring.

After you travel the world as I have, you appreciate the U.S.A. even more. What a beautiful, wonderful place we have right before our eyes. I wish I could see all of it, but that is almost impossible.