Write On Four Corners
Write On Four Corners the public radio program about authors of the American Southwest, from
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On Air Wednesdays 10:30 am and Fridays 2:30 pm Mountain Time
Not only do I wrie books, like A Mouth Full of Shell, Snap Me a Future (DLSIJ Press.com,) andBelle’s Star, (Artemesia Press release 2009), I write and talk about books. My public radio show, Write On Four Corners aired on KSJE-FM, Farmington, New Mexico,features the work of writers living in the Southwestern United States, writers living anywhere and writing about the American Southwest, or writers influenced by an experience in the Southwest.
Airing on 90.9-FM Wednesdays at 10:30 am and Fridays at 2:30 pm Mountain Time, Write On Four Corners features interviews with authors about the writing process, their backgrounds related to the book they’re discussing, their research, their tricks for dveloping plot, character, and scene, and just about anything else related for themto writing.
Write On Four Corners covers fiction, poetry, essay, non fiction, children’s literature, journaling, any kind of writing. It does not feature erotica, allow vicious language, and encourage hate literature of anykind.
Guests have included Hispanic author Rudolfo Anaya,, Pulitzer Prize nominee and poet, Rebecca Seiferle, award-winning novelist, Kate Niles, Sterling Financial Group founder, Charles Patrick Garcia, and multicultural children’s writer, Uma Krishnaswami. Less well-known writers have read, too, in all genres.
To hear Write On Four Corners tune to 90.9-FM in the Farmington, New Mexico area. You can alsk listen to the show’s parent public radio station, KSJE-FM at www.ksje.com
Write On Four Corners also features a blog at conniegotsch.blogspot.com Check out book signings, writer’s workshops, Southwestern publishers, and writers’ newsletters there.
You can cut and paste the web address from this page or find it on the my blog roll.
I also review books by some of the authors who appear on,em>Write On Four Corners
Here’s one. The Demise of Bobby Mac,
No one could like Rob McGruder alias Rob Martin at the beginning of “The Demise of Bobby Mac” by Barbara Leachman, published by AuthorHouse. He’s the book’s main character, and by page three, he’s trying to break into a house occupied by a college girl, Paige Lewis who is watching the place for her brother and his wife.
Yet, by the end of the heist, Leachman has managed to make the reader half interested in Rob’s future, by sticking bits and pieces of his background into the action of the burglary. It seems he’s a petty thief who does not want to be one, robbing the house so he can start a new life. Though he binds and gags Paige, he has compassion for the girl
The situation raises interesting questions. Can a person turn bad into good? Should he do so at the expense of others? Can people directly influence each other for bad or good? Authors from O. Henry to Victor Hugo have explored these issues, and come to different conclusions, any of which might fit ‘The Demise of Bobby Mac’ as the story begins.
But as Rob faces all the people he has hurt in a sort of inverted ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ scenario, Leachman seems to suggest that each individual must answer the questions raised by the book for him or herself. This leads Rob, Paige, and Geri an ex-girl friend of Rob’s, into an intriguing dance of action and character development that brings a conclusion to the story over which a reader might linger.
Unfortunately ‘The Death of Bobby Mac’ has some technical problems. Several years pass during the story and sometimes they do so with a clunky ‘five years later,’ approach. At the end of an exciting passage to hit sentences like that is like stepping into a prairie dog hole at full run. Occasionally the author lapses into telling and not showing action, and repeats words and phrases in close proximity.
Still, ‘The Death of Bobby Mac’ works, because at the outcome, the reader considers it. Good literature makes a reader think.
