Mine is a writer’s life: Taco Tuesday at Blackstone, continued preparations for releasing The Emerald Cross

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 […]

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Mine is a writer’s life: Frank Lloyd Wright & Book Reviews

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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Mine is a writer’s life: Proof copies of The Emerald Cross are on their way!

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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Mine is a writer’s life: The Emerald Cross is officially posted on NetGalley!

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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Mine is a writer’s life: Anniversary and The Emerald Cross launch prep!

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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Mine is a writer’s life: NetGalley, Newman, thrillers, and Doheny Drive!

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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Mine is a writer’s life: Page reads surge, killing my front tooth!

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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Mine is a writer’s life: Working my way through Doheny Drive!

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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Mine is a writer’s life: The Emerald Cross

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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