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This is the second of at least six posts on writing The Crosses. The third, discussing the novel’s character diversity, will be posted in a few days. If you haven’t followed the Kickstarter, please consider doing so at the link below. It will end later this month, so take advantage now to get not only […]

If you haven’t followed yet, please consider doing so. MX Publishing has launched The Crosses Kickstarter that includes not only the signed edition of the novel, but also other rewards that include:Paperback, PDF, and Hardcover EditionsSigned paperbacks and hardcovers for USA fansBSI BundlesThe BSI Bundle pairs The Crosses with Kim Krisco’s novel, Irregular Lives: The […]

When fairy hoaxer, Dan Baines, asked F.R. Maher to give a presentation on fairies at a past Doomsday Gathering, UK’s annual event examining the strange and mysterious, it planted the seed for what would become a play and then a novel, both titled Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Believed in Fairies. Maher began her presentation […]

Morning Hymn is Chris's eighteenth album, his second featuring lyrical songs influenced by a number of musical styles and genres, from bluegrass and rock to jazz and indigenous flute music. Unlike his instrumental albums, Morning Hymn is based in the rock and singer-songwriter genres. Morning Hymn and all of his albums are available via most […]

  As Holmes and Watson languish in boredom, a telegram arrives from solicitor Phineas Larcombe, requesting Holmes’s immediate assistance. Renowned clockmaker Ezekiel Brand has died suspiciously after leaving his estate to whichever of his three apprentices can solve a riddle hidden in his final masterpiece clock. Holmes examines the clock, which is housed in a […]

The Further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Volume III, by Caiden Cooper Myles, features six new adventures and is a welcomed addition to the Holmes canon. Precisely capturing the original Holmes stories’ narrative voice and style, Myles delivers tales that not only further explore Holmes’s deductive prowess, but also celebrate his cherished relationship with John Watson.Having […]

Announcing simultaneous publication of two books, The Bridge and Politics. In late 2021, it became necessary to place all work on hold throughout 2022. I have now returned to those projects, which means more will appear in a shorter time than usual, beginning with these two collections, but I will not inundate you with emails. I hope you […]

Any way you look at it, parenting is rife with challenges and joys. Fatherhood ~ Poems of Parenthood, the latest book by author/musician C.S. Fuqua, published by UK-based Stairwell Books, explores the facets of parenting from a father’s perspective in 90 poems written over a 30-year period.In 1991, Fuqua became an “at-home dad” charged with the day-to-day […]

Musician and author C.S. Fuqua has taken a slightly different approach with his latest Native American style flute album Homeward ~ WindPoem VII ~ Native American Flute Meditations, combining traditional sound and harmonies with modern structure and percussion.With popularity centered around its unique and novel sound, the Native American flute has come a long way over […]

Mention the Native American flute, and the first thing that comes to mind is a beautifully carved piece of artwork that produces soulful sounds. No screaming guitars. No banjos. No brass section. Just that single instrument and its haunting melody that serves as soundtrack to countless Youtube meditation videos. But the native flute is far more than that.Las […]

 Insecurity and salvation.These two themes recur often yet unplanned in the fiction and poetry I write. They usually emerge from a character’s self-doubt, countered by an unrealistic belief that situations, no matter how awful or threatening, will eventually turn out okay, that adversity will ultimately surrender to peace. But why do these particular themes keep showing up?A […]

When Native American flute popularity exploded in the 1980s and ’90s, the public latched onto the “love flute” myth as a history-based tale, that Native Americans had used the flute strictly as a courting tool. Other myths associated with the flute — that it was a gift from the Great Spirit to set trapped souls […]

“Brother’s got high cheekbones!”“Sister’s hair’s jet black and straight!”“Granddaddy looks like Geronimo!”I’ve heard such nonsense all my life as relatives, without proof, claimed Native American ancestry. Officially, we’re white, “but we got Indian blood in us from way back.” In 2015, a Pew Research Center study revealed that at least half of all U.S. adults who […]

 Need a laugh?Native American flutes have always been known primarily as “love flutes” or “courting flutes” and were generally played for no other reason than courting rituals by a young man serenading his intended bride, although some men played them for their wives as a sign of love.The above statement—paraphrased from an “authentic” Native American […]

 Most don’t think of jazz music when someone mentions the Native American flute. The instrument is best known for a sound that’s usually described as ethereal, spiritual, haunting — the traditional allure of the native flute. But tradition is being upended, and artists around the world are blending the Native American flute into a variety […]