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…

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…

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…

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 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…

“Don’t it always seem to go. You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.” –Joni Mitchell. I started blogging at Open Salon almost five years ago, with a post (a love letter, really) to Joni Mitchell. As of the 9th of March, OS is officially dead….

My mother was a confirmed atheist. She believed in no higher power, in nothing that couldn’t be quantified. She barely believed in the existence of emotions. But everyone’s got to believe in something, even my mother. She was an orthodox liberal who fervently believed in equality. Racism, anti-Semitism, all forms of discrimination and prejudice were deadly…

When I met Julie and Julia Posted by John Manchester on June 27, 2012 at 4:00pm View Blog JUNE 27, 2012 3:21PM RATE: 21 Flag I enjoyed When Harry Met Sally.  I found Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail a bit sugary for my taste. I didn’t really fall for Nora Ephron  until Julie and Julia. I loved that movie. I don’t make movies, so…

Grace Posted by John Manchester on March 8, 2012 at 4:00pm View Blog EDITOR’S PICK MARCH 8, 2012 8:21AM RATE: 42 Flag The ophthalmologist who diagnosed me with a retinal stroke called it “the canary in the mine” -early warning of worse things that might come, like a brain stoke. Last Wednesday I had an MRI to investigate…