A Meaningful New Direction for an Old Writer’s Obsession For the last few days I’ve been making the eBook versions of my books available for free. Kindle Direct Publishing allows me to offer any or all titles for free for five days total once a quarter. A couple of years ago I did the same...Read More

Download a Free Kindle Copy of The Holy Lance Starting tomorrow, July 5th, The Holy Lance, my 21st century espionage thriller with a dash of fantasy thrown in, will be FREE if you download the eBook version on the book’s Amazon listing. This giveaway will last for five days. Described by one reviewer as “Tom...Read More

Download a Free Kindle Copy of Let Me Explain Starting tomorrow, July 4th, my prep school coming-of-age novel, Let Me Explain, will be FREE if you download the eBook version on the book’s Amazon listing. This giveaway will last for five days. Here’s what award-winning director and producer Peter Farrelly had to say about Let...Read More

Download Free Kindle Copies of each Nick Temple File Starting tomorrow, July 3rd, each book in my six-book Cold War spy series The Nick Temple Files will be FREE if you download the eBook version on the book’s Amazon listing. This giveaway will last for five days until midnight, PDT, July 7th, for each of...Read More

Download a Free Kindle Copy of Judging Paradise Starting today, July 2nd, Judging Paradise is FREE if you download the eBook version on the book’s Amazon listing. This giveaway will last for five days. Of course, if you feel that it’s really not a huge sacrifice to pay $1.99 for something that took ten years...Read More

Download a Free Kindle Copy of A String of Beads Starting tomorrow, July 1st, A String of Beads will be FREE if you download the eBook version on the book’s Amazon listing. This giveaway will last for five days. Of course, if you decide you’d like a paperback copy you can always buy one. Or,...Read More

Time to Write Plus Motivation Equals Production On Saturday, The Writers Club, an online literary journal, published my short story “Hit and Run.” In addition, since August 4, 2020, I’ve published three books: The Shadow Chamber, The Heidelberg Gap, both of which are Nick Temple Files, and A String of Beads, my collection of short...Read More

Draft Cover for Nick Temple File no. 7 My writing process isn’t a steady, linear process. At times the words flow; at times the ideas flow; at times the questions flow; and at times nothing flows. During the slow times, I try to find some way to move things along. I can proof and/or edit...Read More

The First Review of A String of Beads Gives it Five Stars Well, there it is. The first review of A String of Beads and it’s a good one. Five-stars! Don’t let any writer who says, “I don’t pay attention to reviews” fool you. They do, and so do I. Here’s the first review of...Read More

Few Things Equal Holding a Copy of My Latest Book My copies of A String of Beads arrived today. There was some inexplicable delay in getting them, but now that they’re here, all is momentarily right with the world. Opening a package with copies of my newest book in it is one of the joys...Read More