Not a bad view for Taco Tuesday, right? The Emerald Cross will be officially released on June 14. If you love cartel and military thrillers – or simply thrillers – you should enjoy the read. A glimpse of an entertaining family dynamic: “It’s a life we earned, Ashley! We’ve worked our butts off for everything […]
I always wanted to visit Taliesin West before I ended up in this damn chair. Wheelchairs are a disallowed mode of transportation on the site, with good reason (too rocky and uneven). I was thrilled that my wife and her childhood friend drove from the northwest side of the Valley of the Sun (metro Phoenix)
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Just because I haven’t posted for a while doesn’t mean I’m not busy. I made a huge decision to rewrite The Emerald Cross in first person versus third. If that sounds simple enough, it’s not – as I discovered. But I’m extremely pleased with how presenting the story in first person significantly improves pace and,
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I’ve uploaded the digital files for The Emerald Cross to Ingram. Next, they will get uploaded to Amazon. Reviews will start arriving in March – fingers crossed. I received one early, a five-star from Readers’ Favorite in all categories. NetGalley subscribers can read an Advance Review Copy of The Emerald Cross today – look for
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If you love page-turners filled with elements of family/military/cartel and domestic thrillers, then you might find The Emerald Cross well worth your time. I hope so! Here’s the link: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/323441 The Emerald Cross doesn’t drop for over three months, and I am absolutely buried with prep that’s keeping me from writing! Any other author reading
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Our daughter and son-in-law visited to celebrate their one-year anniversary; they live in New York but were married here in the Sonoran Desert in February 2023. It was a beautiful weekend spurring wonderful recollections of their special day (and some great food)! The second photo above shows the back cover of the paperback version of
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NetGalley ARC readers of thrillers! The e-book version of my upcoming thriller, The Emerald Cross, will be available for review this month on NetGalley – stay tuned! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPCJNX59 My thriller Eagle Bay earned 72,000 page reads on Kindle Unlimited last week. Unfortunately, that broad readership declined, and I don’t know why the spike occurred. But
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The Kindle Unlimited page reads for my psychological thriller, Eagle Bay, exploded five days ago and have maintained/grown since then and will probably exceed 70,000 pages by tonight. I wish I had a handle on what triggered the flurry of reading, but I’ll be honest and say I’m a bit in the dark. That said,
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Doheny Drive is the working title for a novel that will surprise readers of my dark psychological thriller, Eagle Bay, released in June 2023, and my upcoming military-cartel-domestic-psychological thriller, The Emerald Cross, due out on May 15, 2024. While the thrillers are fast-paced, intense, and unguessable, Doheny Drive is a generational story of four childhood
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From The Emerald Cross, available May 15. Introducing Green Beret war hero and seeker of justice Jamie Morales. A gripping story, Book 1 of a series. Parts psychological, domestic, cartel, and military thriller! ……… Maria’s sole comfort in life was Jaime, but she increasingly felt like mother and son lived in a shrinking fishbowl, imprisoned
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