About Blog Author

Ok, for you book writing nuts, I’ve written about five or six history books, edited about half a dozen more, had two or three translated and published in Spanish (in Peru) and the easiest way to confirm this is just to browse through google or amazon and find the books by searching for Lawrence A. Clayton. Listing them looks too much like an exercise in vanity.

The search is kind of fun, since there are a couple of other Lawrence Claytons out there writing a lot, one a cowboy historian and another one who studies drugs and drug addiction. Their titles sometimes a lot more interesting than mine!

Ok, so much for my exercise in fake humility. I like to write. I like to write books. And I love to see them in print. One actually even won a prize, several were born in Fulbright experiences in Latin America, one is a short book on living a Christian life which I shamelessly self-published (Xlibris) because I couldn’t get a Christian publisher to even look at the manuscript, there is even a novel, The Andean Cross.

Writers have ups and downs, we sometimes go sideways, backwards, fall off the ladder, climb back up, start, finish, start, start, start, and the trip is never dull, marked by thuds and painful crashes, but the highs lift you right up into the sky.

Here are some visuals breaks to entertain you, the covers of a few of my books. Can you tell a book by its cover?

I don’t know, but I thought the one below had the best cover ever designed for a book of mine.

Here’s another I kind of liked. It probably sold better than any book I’ve been associated with, as author or editor, and I probably had the least to do with putting it together. Go figure.