Keeping A Guy In Prison

I Did Get Tired Of Hearing That Criticism Years Ago. That Is Not A Compliment. Being Labeled A "beach Read" Is A Put-down. So, I Did Deliberately Set Out To Write A Book, Camino Island, That Would Be Very Entertaining And Compulsively Readable And We Published It On June 6 In Time For Summer Vacation, Hoping That People Would Buy It And Take It To The Beach.

Prisons Are Fascinating Places, Especially When The Inmates Are Educated White-collar Types.

In Little Pockets Of Conversation, Old Men Were Telling Stories Of Ancient Floods. Women Were Talking Of About How Much Rain There'd Been In Other Towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, And Manila.

One Thing You Really Have To Watch As A Writer Is Getting On A Soapbox Or Pulpit About Anything. You Don't Want To Alienate Readers.

Very Few Writers Understand The Complex History And Maddening Social Order Of The Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, Though, It's Home Turf. He Is Wickedly Observant, Funny, Cynical, Evocative, And He Possesses A Gift That Cannot Be Taught: He Can Tell A Story.