Jim Hall

Author & Lecturer

Central Rappahanock Regional Library

Wait list at library is reason to be happy

Amazon produces a sales ranking that some authors enjoy following. Not me. It’s too discouraging. This morning, Aug. 15, for example, my new book, Condemned for Love in Old Virginia, ranked No. 792,776 on the Amazon site. The rankings were better in their African American History category (No. 1,095) and True Crime category (No. 8,408).
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Jim Hall

August 15, 2023

Blog, Fauquier County, Va. History, Fredericksburg, VA, Life as a Writer, Virginia History

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Central Rappahanock Regional Library, Condemned for Love in Old Virginia, Fauquier County Library, Jane Keller
Gather, write, rewrite

Writing this book or a writing a newspaper article is the result of a three-step process: gathering, writing and rewriting. I loop back and forth from one step to the other as long as time allows. So even though my deadline to submit the manuscript for The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia is a month away,
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Jim Hall

January 10, 2016

Archive, Fauquier County, Va. History, Getting Published, Life as a Writer, Lynching, Race Relations, Virginia History, Writing the Book Rattlesnake Mountain

Central Rappahanock Regional Library, Fauquier County, Harry F. Byrd, Ku Klux Klan, Rattlesnake Mountain, Roy Flannagan, Warrenton