by Vincent McCaffrey | Dec 20, 2022 | Blog, Novel in Progress, Novels, The Invention of Man
In love, but broke, the sixty-eight-year-old bookseller, Michael McGeraughty, has converted a fifty-year-old camper-trailer to a small bookshop of about 1500 volumes, to be pulled by his thirty-year-old pick-up truck. His idea is to be a modern-day ‘book peddler’ in...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog, Novels
[If you liked the previous posting, here’s another from that novel, now renamed The Keeper Jones ] The fact of the matter was, he did not like people. Simple as that. They were generally mean, smelly, short sighted, lazy, dull, boring and boorish...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Oct 24, 2018 | Blog, Novels
[A new tidbit that might amuse from an older story to be readied for publication someday soon.] April flowers: 2317 He usually wore an Irish tweed cap. This singular fact had become something of a trademark among his friends when sitting in on vid...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 4, 2018 | Blog, Novels
A friend was recently reading the revised version of John Finn that appears to be making its way into print sooner than later and suggested that a particular chapter might stand on its own. It happens to be one of those I posted first about eight years ago when John...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Apr 10, 2018 | Blog, Novel in Progress
“Those who cannot remember the future are condemned to repeat it. The past can never be repaired or reclaimed. The future may be reimagined at any moment, possessed at any time, and thus easily known.” Joe Trees This is the journal of Griffon Macdonald, his...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Oct 7, 2017 | Blog, Novels
Wherein I am reminded of myself [Another sip of A Republic of Books, the novel in progress, for your enjoyment] John Yu has been coming in the shop since he was a kid. He is still a kid, but bigger. He went to MIT. He’s at the University of Pennsylvania now, though...
