In early 2013, I was enjoying a successful freelance career. I had been creating content for clients for more than five years, and I felt that the time had come to write a book of my own. While I was mulling over ideas, I attended a talk by another local freelance writer. I wanted to…
Story behind My Year as a Clown My Year as a Clown is loosely based on a number of divorce, lay-off and natural disaster stories that happened to me, friends, family and people I read about in the newspapers. Nothing is off-bounds as a source of material – the criteria for getting into my novel…
In my life’s work identifying the Biblical goals of education and its methods, I, with many friends and mentors contributing, produced what might be called a crafted systematic theology of applied faith—the Word of God applied to everything in this life in anticipation of the next! This work identifies God’s goals for His people. These…
The project started while taking a local fiction writing course taught by an outstanding novelist and previous short story editor of “The New Yorker,” Hollis Alpert. One of several topics for a short story was “A Silver Box.” Perhaps because my father’s entire Lithuanian family had been murdered by the Nazis, I wrote the story…
Joe Sinclair has had an education career that spanned more than forty-five years. He served as superintendent of schools in various North Carolina districts for more than twenty years. In 1992, he was selected as North Carolina’s Superintendent of the Year. He and his wife, Claryce, live in Statesville, North Carolina. The Story Behind Putting…
My upbringing as a child was very hard. I was an orphan, the youngest of six children. My mother was 13 when she had her first child and 19 when I was born, having six children in six years. My mother was shot with a shotgun by my father. I lived in violence, abuse and poverty.…
I’ve been asked on numerous occasions about the inspiration behind my latest romantic suspense novel – Buried Threads. Not only does this come from my interest in scuba diving and Asian antiques, but also from the people I’ve had the privilege of knowing after traveling to Japan on a regular basis. Thirty-nine years ago, I…
My little work of contempo fiction, Wifey, a novella by the very bones of its facial structure, but novelesque by sheer textile length, was originally slated to be a short story–one that I had planned to sprinkle in as part of a fistful’s collection of my just-inked, soul-parsing, socially-conscious shorts. But as my mind, fingers…
The Story Behind the Book 