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SNEAK PEEK: A Novel about a Desert Rat
A sneak peak with some background concerning a forthcoming novel about Desert Steve Ragsdale, the founder of Desert Center, California, in the 1920s. By author Markus McDowell.
Listen: “What Does the River Say?” (short story from The Sky Over Chaos)
“What Does the River Say?” is from a collection of short stories by Markus McDowell entitled The Sky Over Chaos. What does it mean? You decide.
BOOK REVIEW: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
A review of Love in the Time of Cholera, a literary novel by Gabriel García Márquez. Reviewed by Dr. Markus McDowell.
Tragedy, Natural Disasters, and Writing
It’s been a difficult month here in southern California. I had joined the international writing community National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) as a way to get the majority of a new novel written. I’ve done this every year for the past three. I was just finishing week one when death and destruction hit my community: the Borderline Bar & Grill Shooting, Officer Ron Helus death, and the Woolsey and Hill Fires.
Beach Walks: Life, Chaos, and the Order of the Universe
Markus McDowell muses about beachside walks, demonstrating the chaos and order of the universe and life…and inspire his writings.
Free Sneak Peek: Buying a prospector’s cabin in the desert (1921)
Here is the first draft of scene from our upcoming historical fiction novel by Markus McDowell. Steve is going broke with his cotton farm during World War I, so he gives the land to the government and buys an old prospectors well in the middle of the desert.