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Richard Whitten Barnes

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Richard Whitten Barnes was born in Minnesota but grew up on the north side of Chicago. A music scholarship took him to Michigan State University, where he majored in chemistry. He is now retired from a long career in international chemical sales and marketing, which has taken him worldwide. Barnes is a U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division veteran and an avid sailor. He lives in Charlotte MC., but spends summers with his wife Marg and cat Maggie at their cottage on St. Joseph Island, Ontario.

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Richard Whitten Barnes I have two methods. The first, and I suppose it's true for most writers, is to walk away from the story for a day, and return with a fresh outlook.
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I have two methods. The first, and I suppose it's true for most writers, is to walk away from the story for a day, and return with a fresh outlook.
The method that is best for me is to talk it out. I think better when I verbalize a problem, so the mere act of explaining it to someone else clarifies it to the extent I find my own solution.
I go into this a little more in my blog "Throwing Stones"
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Bad Medicine

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Forgotten Roots

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Medallion

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Out of the Dark

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Luzon

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Steel Town

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The Corydon Snow

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Enemies

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Out of the Dark

My October 2020 WW2 novel is about a boy coming of age in Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. His world view is influenced by Hitler's carefully orchestrated youth programs.
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Richard Barnes The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II
The First of Jeff Shaara's Trilogy on WWII in Europe. Written as if the major players -- Eisenhower, Marshall, Roosevelt, Churchill, etc. were being quoted. This makes the series quite readable. Lots of research to make you feel you've learned something, a well.
Thes first one of the three deals with Africa and the invasion of Italy.


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