The Carrot, The String, and The Stick

A young journalist moved to Taos art colony to write his novel and becomes involved with the town people which leads to flight after he attempts to better his economic situation by stealth after a robbery in the town.

Donald Sinclair is a seasoned newspaper man, who after traveling extensively, living in Germany, Spain, Canada, Mexico has turned to fiction writing. Using the experiences he encountered over the years, puts in story-form what he has seen and was affected by, putting his thoughts and feelings into fiction form, rather that just reporting the facts of an occurrence. His style is close to the terse phrases and paragraphs used by newspapermen which makes the story move steadily along, but is punctuated with insights. "Carrot" is a book everyone who writes, can identify with, knowing what an author faces while trying to live and write in the everyday world.