In October our Tibetan Spaniel Milo developed a cough. Ten days later he was dead of an enlarged heart. Judy and I were devastated. Milo was fourteen, but our previous Tibbies had lived to almost twenty. Judy had sworn up and down that Milo would be our last dog. Within hours of Milo’s passing we…
NEVER SPEAK PUBLISHED TODAY
My first novel Never Speak is available on Amazon here. You can order the ebook now. I’m told the print version will be available within a day. And announcing Luminous Muse Tuesdays! I’ll be posting here on Tuesday for as long as my brain keeps churning stuff out (if the past is any guide, it’ll…
Cults in Our Midst
When most people think of cults what tends to come to mind is the Manson Family or Jim Jones and the Kool-aid. Heaven’s Gate members in those bunk beds with plastic bags covering their heads. Aum Shinrikyo unleashing Sarin gas in the Tokyo Subway. There’s a reason people associate the word cult with the most…
NEVER SPEAK PUBLISHED
The ebook version of my mystery/thriller novel NEVER SPEAK is available on Amazon for pre-order at this link: http://geni.us/neverspeak The print version will be available on publication day, January 29, 2019. NEVER SPEAK is the first in the Murderous Arts Series. Books two, three and four are finished. It would help me during this crucial launch period…
Jill Ker Conway 1934-2018
Since moving to the Bay Area I’ve been listening a lot to our local public radio station KQED. I turned on my car radio the other day and there was an unmistakable voice that I thought I’d never hear again–that of my friend Jill Ker Conway. She died a few weeks ago, on June 1st….
Wild Wild Country
The Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country tells the story of Indian guru Baghwan Shree Rajneesh’s years in the US. In 1981 he and his followers moved to remote Antelope, Oregon, population 40. On a hundred mile square tract of wilderness they built Rajneeshpuram, a city that housed up to 7000, complete with a shopping…
Published!
I am happy to announce that I have signed a deal with TCK Publishing for Never Speak, If I Fell, and The Girl in the Game, novels of psychological suspense. This never would have happened without my wife Judy, agent Evan Marshall, and the brainstorming, mentoring, beta-reading and handholding of countless friends and family over the thirteen and…
An Improbable Cause
Thirteen months ago I wrote about finding my new agent, extending my metaphor of storming the fortress of the publishing business. A new year, and time for a new metaphor : climbing a mountain. I first gazed up at the summit thirteen years ago. It looked close. I was writing a memoir about my father…
News Fast
The morning of June 5 1968, I was at home when I heard that Robert Kennedy had been shot. I sat glued to the TV, watching the same clips over and over, waiting as he clung to life. But I’d seen this show before. Five years before his brother had been shot, and I’d waited…
When Life Imitates Art
When I began blogging I vowed to only write about politics on the rare occasions that I had something personal to contribute. This is one of those times. ACT I: Plum Pit Throat I just finished a new draft of book one of my series and sent it to my new agent. Just as I…
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