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WRITING A SHORT STORY IS THE KEY TO BEING A BETTER WRITER…

May 11, 2016 Keith McCafferty 0

About a year ago, Colin Kearns, my editor at Field & Stream, asked me if I were interested in going to Cuba. Havana, tooling through Old Town in a pink and white Chevy Bel Air, Papa […]

Setting a Novel Outdoors…better get the mosquito spray…

June 17, 2015 Keith McCafferty 0

Setting a Novel Outdoors…better get the mosquito spray… According to a story about Ian Fleming, he asked his friend William Plomer how you got smoke out of a girl. That’s when Plomer knew he was […]

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