Using Imaginary to Tell a Nonfiction Story

Research Photographs of the Hunt Book The hard re-editing and restoration of all the Hunt photographs I’ve gathered during this research since 2008 has been completed. Currently, out of the original photographic files I’ve re-edited and restored 160 photos. Unfortunately, not all of these images will make it into the main Hunt book when it’s…

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Sheriff Franklin Loyd

Franklin Loyd became the sheriff of Lamb County in 1935. Two years later he was murdered on a March 20, 1937, night in Littlefield near the town’s depot. Only one photograph of him was ever found and that was in the Clovis News Journal. His killer, Leroy Kelley was electrocuted for his murder on March…

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Best Editing Partner

  In celebration of National Puppy Day – here’s my tribute to my lovely girl, Azrael. She’s always by my side and when I curse at my editing  or anything else that deserves curses this is the response I get – “What can I doooooo?” She always has my back with her ever-watchful eyes and…

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Fuming Fodder – A Shitty First Draft!

Every writer has had a shitty first draft they thought was perfect and I’m no exception. I’m openly admitting it. I was under the impression my first draft of the Hunt murder story was better than it was and after discovering that even my basic editing techniques were not even applied to this finished first…

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