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Likening the situation to the present-day war with Iraq, Booklist reviewer Joanne Wilkinson remarked: "With its eerie parallels to modern-day warfare, this fine novel makes for gripping reading.

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Boyd called the book "an exciting historical novel about an unwarranted war. Thom once told CA: "No book or article is begun until some concept has asserted itself irresistibly in my mind. The idea is always the primary motivation, but the idea must be conveyed by clear imagery and strong narrative. I learned early that the reading public wants storytelling, not philosophizing.

As my historical novels are about heroes and heroines who really lived, I slave over my research.

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From Sea to Shining Sea, for example, required research and field trips in forty states, and I've become proficient in the use of many eighteenth-century tools and weapons. Silverman, review of The Children of First Man, p. Myers, review of From Sea to Shining Sea, p. Publishers Weekly, June 26, , Sally A. Lodge, review of Follow the River, p.

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Arts Educational magazines Thom, James Alexander After a semester, he joined the Marines and served in Korea. When he left the military in , Thom settled in Indianapolis to sell insurance. So he took a job in the advertising department at The Indianapolis Star while attending night school at Indiana University at Indianapolis and, later, Butler University, to pursue his love of writing.

Thom graduated in and began work as a police reporter for the Star.

James alexander thom book list: James Alexander Craig Thom (May 26, – January 30, ) was an American author, best known for his works in the Western genre and colonial American history which are noted for their historical accuracy borne of his painstaking research.

In his six years there, he wrote features, and ultimately served as business and finance editor. But a different style of writing constantly called. But Mark Twain stands above all others. But journalism taught me to write in any kind of conditions, how to observe and how to research. Six of James Alexander Thom's historical novels have been selected to be included in Random House's Electronic Book ebook publishing program.

The titles chosen for such formats as Amazon Kindle, iPod, and.

The author finds the news good, but ironic, musing, "I use every bit of my skill and imagination to take my readers hundreds of years into the past -- and now they'll visit those old days through the screen of an electronic gizmo. I am returning to the internet after a long absence. My new email address is docthomdotcom gmail.

Contact me by email for book orders, lecture requests, etc.

James alexander thom biography

Follow the River, the story of a young Virginia woman capture by and subsequent mile escape from the Shawnee Indians, is now in its 37th printing and still sells 30,, copies a year. James Alexander Thom lives with his wife, Dark Rain, a Shawnee in a year-old cabin he moves and reconstructed. Kohkumthena's Grandchildren The Shawnee.

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