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  • The Cathounds

    Good Friday to all of my readers. Today I’m going to switch genre and talk about three of the books that I’ve edited for a friend of mine, Chuck Neighbors. My friend Chuck and I served together at Norfolk Virginia in the old US Atlantic Command back in the early 1990s. I was the Army →

  • The Telegraph in the US Civil War

    Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph made an interesting discovery in 1844. When he was trying to lay his first telegraph line from Washington DC to Baltimore Maryland he tried to lay the wire inside of a pipe. During the construction process it appears that they got some bad wire. Morse was →

  • Saving our Vietnam War Stories

    A couple of days ago I was at a book signing and one of the gentlemen that was there who was also a Vietnam veteran asked me why did I write my books. I asked him what he had done in Vietnam, and he had told me that he’d been an infantryman up in I →

  • Meeting My ‘Muse’

    As I mentioned in a previous blog I had never written a novel before. I was trained as a military historian, and my degrees are in history and political science. And while I was an avid reader I had never really thought about writing anything other than documented history. When I wrote my book ,” →

  • Love and War

    It was a sad moving day for Colonel Paul Tyler, US Army retired. After the loss of his beloved wife, Katherine, to breast cancer, he had decided to sell their large five-bedroom house in Tilden, Indiana and move to a two-bedroom condo in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. As they were clearing out the house →

  • Sci-Fi Adventures

    Readers, I’m going to switch gears this week for a change. As you know most of my book’s deal with the Vietnam War, The Advisor Series, or with history, mostly history of Harrison County West Virginia, but I’ve edited and written some science fiction books with my good friend Navy Captain Chuck Neighbors. This week →

  • “The Most Hated Man in Clarksburg”; historical Civil War fiction

    So how could someone be called or become the most hated man in a small town like Clarksburg Virginia? What could cause a man from Philadelphia, a doctor, a newspaper editor, and a friend of Abraham Lincoln to be so reviled in a small town? The answer to this question is to be found in →

  • The Katy Sterling Saga (Pete Taylor Editor/Author)

    First and foremost, I am NOT a Science-fiction writer! But my longtime friend Chuck Neighbors is! I’ve known Chuck for over thirty years, and our families have grown together. I first met Chuck when I was assigned as an Army officer to the War Room of the old US Atlantic Command in Norfolk Virginia. During →

  • Kien Tuong Province in the Vietnam War

    I found this interesting article on-line and it is worth sharing with my readers. It is translated from Vietnamese to English and I’m certain that there are a number of translation issues however the gist of the material is very interesting. Much of it is a military history of the Kien Tuong Province and US →