Tales from an Ojibway Chief: Steve and Minogi
"Tales from an Ojibway Chief” is a long running series on Carl’s blog, focusing on the real adventures, conversations, and stories between Carl and Steve...
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My Latest ThoughtsAnung at the Museum of Ojibwa Culture
What a gift. It seems almost too good to be true. The second novel of mine that Light Messages is publishing this year is Anung's...
Read MoreTales from an Ojibway Chief: Steve and the Redskins
"Tales from an Ojibway Chief" is a long running series on Carl's blog, focusing on the real adventures, conversations, and stories between Carl and Steve...
Read MoreWin a signed copy of The 53rd Parallel
I am delighted by the initial reader response to The 53rd Parallel. It makes me all the more eager to get my novel into more...
Read MoreNPR Interview: Dreams of Disaster and Redemption
Carl was recently featured in a great interview with NPR's Frank Stasio to discuss The 53rd Parallel and the historical significance of the events in...
Read MoreExcited and a bit nervous
During my entrepreneurial decades I made well over 100 investor pitches and raised millions of dollars for a big handful of start-ups. I was...
Read MoreAnung and Brita Wolf
The ancient Ojibway legend about Anung was told to me by Steve Fobister. He asked me to popularize it, and this summer Light Messages will...
Read MoreMarie, my wife, is reading The 53rd Parallel
She started yesterday, after our early morning bike ride. I walked into the living room and there she was, reading my book. Later I found...
Read MoreIn two days I get to be a novelist.
It's been my lifelong ambition, to be a novelist. When I was five I wanted to be a cowboy. Soon after, and until the age...
Read More“Writing allows even a stupid person…
...to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time....
Read MoreHave you read Wendell Berry?
I discovered Wendell Berry a few years back. I loves his fiction first. Most of his novels and short stories are set in rural Kentucky where...
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