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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!

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

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

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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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Mine is a writer’s life: The Emerald Cross

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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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Mine is a writer’s life: Happy New Year! It will be a busy one!

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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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Mine is a writer’s life: Chevy Van, coins, and manuscripts!

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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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Mine is a writer’s life: Looking forward to the 2024 release of The Emerald Cross!

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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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Mine is a writer’s life: Horse, Eagle Bay, and The Emerald Cross!

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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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