In 1984, after writing for newspapers and magazines in the United States and Canada for nearly twenty years, I did what most writers dream of doing, I published a novel. It was a thriller set in Toronto about a nomadic…
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Writing Sanibel: Or How An Old Dog Used A Unique Island and Technology to Learn New Tricks
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Sanibel, My Sanibel
Coming across the causeway that links Sanibel Island to the Florida mainland, you can see the wakes thrown off by distant pleasure craft in San Carlos Bay like great white rooster tails in the bright morning sunlight. The sunlight turns the causeway into…
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The Private Detective Inside Me
In the late 1970s, working as a journalist for a New York syndicate I went down to Murrell’s Inlet, South Carolina, to interview the legendary mystery writer, Mickey Spillane. Beginning in 1947, Spillane wrote a series of hard-boiled novels starring…
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Ron Base Writes 