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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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
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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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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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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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