I hope you and yours had a fabulous Holiday Season and that 2024 is filled with adventure and happiness! We drove from Phoenix to Orange County on December 18, then enjoyed a great birthday dinner for my wife at a stellar restaurant the next day, accompanied by our son, daughter-in-law, brother, and the special guest […]
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Attached Photos: I absolutely love this creative take on bookshelves – in the form of a tree! I want it in my house! The other photos are of recent skies above our home in Arizona. I try not to take the natural beauty of this state for granted. I’ve learned a lot about the fiction
Mine is a writer’s life: The Emerald Cross, Eagle Bay, and Doheny Drive! Read More »
Writing stories gives me great joy and satisfaction. If you’ve been following along, then you know I can no longer pen or type my novels the old-fashioned way – I use Dragon speech-to-text software to create my manuscripts. If I had been afflicted by my aggressive form of multiple sclerosis fifty years earlier, I wouldn’t
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If you love dark psychological thrillers, consider my debut, Eagle Bay: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C17XWN4Y The unaltered iPhone photo above shows the skies near our home in Arizona during my wife’s bocce ball finals! I’ve been writing and editing my evolving work of fiction, Doheny Drive. Read the first still-being-edited chapter below and tell me what you think!
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From Chapter 1, THE EMERALD CROSS. TBR 2024: Rays of late afternoon sunshine draped the gathering. Enriquez shook Samuel’s hand as he approached the podium wearing a turquoise tie that brought a smile to Maria’s lips; she appreciated his coded tribute. Samuel laid three typed pages upon the console and breathed deeply while looking at
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Horse was an outstanding read, supremely woven to link the past to modern times in a captivating fashion! Thank you, Evie! Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize winner, so I had high expectations before turning the first page, and she did not disappoint. If you love everything horses, historical fiction, and generation-spanning stories, or are
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My wife, Karen, is an accomplished abstract and abstract landscape oil painter. Four of her paintings have been chosen by the US State Department’s Art in Embassies program (established by JFK) over the past six years and exhibited alongside works by selected artists from around the world. I keep telling her I am super proud;
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My debut psychological thriller novel, Eagle Bay, will be heavily discounted on Amazon (e-book version) November 12-18 in conjunction with marketing intended to get the book into the hands of new readers. My second thriller, The Emerald Cross, will not launch in January, 2024, as previously planned, because I’ve decided to put another strong push
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We did it! We watched our last unmarried child walk up the aisle with a wonderful young man – cheers to you, Bre and Chet, for a lifetime of happiness! Bre married into a loving and supportive family, and in return, they were gifted an extraordinary young lady. We now have our three children matched
Mine is a writer’s life: And what a wedding it was! Read More »
It is difficult for young people to understand how fleeting life is. That isn’t meant to be a downer at all – life can be grand, adventurous, and full of love and blessings. But it moves quickly, something that isn’t fully realized until one has reached middle age. Yet even I, a 60-ish-year-old, am looking
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