Tag: Tortoise Stew

• SMALL TOWNS ROCK – CEDAR KEY, FLORIDA

  

  When I moved to a small north Florida town in 1980, I loved the location in the middle of the state. We could drive to the Atlantic Ocean in less than two hours, or we could be sitting at a bar overlooking the Gulf of Mexico in less than ninety minutes. Harry Cruise, a Florida…

  P. C. Zick

  May 27, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, environment, Environmental Concerns, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, Small Town, wildlife

  Atlantic Ocean, Carl Hiassen, Cedar Key, Florida Fiction Series, Florida small towns, Gulf of Mexico, Harry Cruise, hurricanes, lumber, oysters, small towns, Sunshine State, Tortoise Stew, University of Florida

• TORTOISE STEW – WHERE FACT AND FICTION MEET

  

  Sometimes the muse leads us where we need to go. In early 2002, I was working on a novel set on the Suwanee River. I was also a reporter for a 5,000 circulation weekly newspaper in north Florida. I covered one of the more contentious city commissions as WalMart began doing what WalMart does best…

  P. C. Zick

  April 12, 2017

  Ramblings of a Writer

  bomb, contemporary fiction, Florida fiction, Florida politics, P.C. Zick, Tortoise Stew

• #NaNoWriMo – It’s that time of year

  For years, I’ve wanted to participate in the National Novel Writing Month. Each time November rolled around, I was busy with something else or in various stages of publishing another novel. This year I published my last project, Native Lands, on October 29, 2014, which means by November 1, I was ready to embark on…

  P. C. Zick

  November 7, 2014

  Books by P. C. Zick, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, contemporary romance, fiction, Florida, Florida fiction, National Novel Writing Month, Native Lands, new adult romance, novel, Tortoise Stew, Trails in the Sand