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Coffee with an author

Earlier this week, Rhiannon and I did an interview with Coffee with an Author host Naomi Giroux on IJustFinished.com, a blog about books.

We talked about Galveston, Hurricane Ike, and of course, Infinite Monster. If you have questions for us about how we covered the storm as reporters for The Galveston Daily News or how we [...]

Quote of the Day

We’re devoting one chapter of “Forgotten” to telling the story of what happened on the Bolivar Peninsula. I think a lot of people dismissed the damage in Crystal Beach, Gilchrist and the other peninsula communities because so many of the homes lost belonged to wealthy people who rented them to visitors. If more of the [...]

A Long 10 Days

I started working this week on Chapter 8, titled “A Long 10 Days.” That should be self-explanatory for everyone who waited anxiously on the other side of the causeway for word that they could come home. For everyone else: Galveston officials kept residents off the island for 10 days after Hurricane Ike struck. It took [...]

Different perspectives and faulty memories

I’ve spent the last few days working on Chapter 7, which covers the Saturday after Ike’s landfall. Everyone who rode out the storm on the island has vivid memories of that day. The impressions of what they saw, smelled and heard as they emerged from their safe (or in some cases not so safe) havens probably will [...]