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Entries for January, 2009 in The Write Stuff

  • ALongLook

    Murders on my mind

    By ALongLook in The Write Stuff

    Yesterday, Jan. 27, marked the 17th anniversary of the triple homicides of the Butts family in East Texas that I am writing a book about. Seventeen years! Mackenzie, only two at the time she was drowned in the bathtub, would ...

  • ALongLook

    Hurry up and wait

    By ALongLook in The Write Stuff

    Some days I think I'd rather get a quick "thanks, but no thanks" than wait. But in reality as long as an agent Hasn't' turned you down there's still hope that the project has legs. So I wait. And get ...

  • ALongLook

    Due Process

    By ALongLook in The Write Stuff

    There is some discussion on the forum here about people expressing their opinion about the guilt of Steve and Bettie Ramirez, who will be standing trial for murder in Feb. in connection with the starving and beating death of their ...

  • ALongLook

    First things first

    By ALongLook in The Write Stuff

    Before the Kevin Hailey murder trial in Nacogdoches in September, there is another murder trial a little closer to home that needs to be resolved. Today in Gonzales County what should be the final pre-trial hearing in the murder trial ...