Daniel Woodrell has died of pancreatic cancer at age 72 in West Plains. Woodrell was born in Springfield but lived in West Plains. Three of his novels, Tomato Red, Ride with the Devil, and Winter’s Bone, were turned into movies. His last novel, The Maid’s Version, was about an explosion at a dance hall in …
It may get redundant, as you read the first chapters of the novel, but one thing 1966 was remembered for, was the horrible winter. Bitter cold temperatures in the teens, harsh winds, snow that closed the Springfield schools (unfortunately, I’m from Lebanon which really didn’t have snow days until I started attending school in the …
In The Dynamic Duo of the Ozarks, there are several references to a discount variety store called Katz Discount City or Katz Drug Store. This was a real chain of stores in the Midwest. There was one in Springfield, Missouri, which was the model for Springville, the settings of the story. Katz began as a …
The Facebook friend, who said that people wouldn’t want to read my novel, said it would only appeal to “geeks” who like “obscure references.” This is the same person who said nobody would want to read about radio (see the previous post). I realize there are names that appear in the story that younger people …
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 