My Goodreads giveaway completed on September 30th.  I gave away 5 signed copies of The Order of the Wolf to promote the coming release of book 3 The Eastern Factor.  I had 604 people sign up for the giveaway.  I’m considering this a success, because 604 more people have heard of me and my books […]

Listen all you slug-a-beds, we’re about to lose some words.  According to experts there are several words that will soon be lost from the English language: Academics uncover 30 words ‘lost’ from English language Hey, I’ve been know to make up a word on occasion.  Wouldn’t it be easier to just use one of these […]

The Eastern Factor, book 3 of my Kingdom of Haven series is coming soon.  Just to get things rolling a bit, I am giving away 5 copies The Order of the Wolf, the first book in the series, over at Goodreads.   So head on over to sign up for the book giveaway.  While you’re there, […]

The first two novels in my Kingdom of Haven series are now available as e-books on Kobo.  Also, I will be sponsoring book giveaways for these titles in Goodreads to promote the third book in the series: The Eastern Factor.  More details to come.

I’ve been working on the final revision of this novel.  It is the third book in my Kingdom of Haven series.  Soon it will be off to the editor, and then out in the world.   It will be available around November.  More details to come. In the meantime, here is the cover design by […]

When I joined Goodreads a few years ago, I felt like I should write reviews for the books I read. After doing this for a month or two, I changed my mind.  I still will rate a book (as long as I finished reading it, and if I liked it enough to read it then […]

My philosophy has always been that there are too many books out there to spend the time to re-read.  I’ve only consciously made a couple of exceptions to this rule. A few years ago I re-read Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.  In my opinion, this is one of the classics of science fiction […]

We are given advice in all aspects of our lives.  Career advice, life advice, marriage advice, writing advice—everyone has an opinion and most are willing to share it.  How much of that advice do you follow?  Any of it worth listening to, or repeating? I have found one piece of advice to be useful in […]

I’ve been a livelong reader.  I remember going to the bookstore with my mom just about every weekend for years.  We were the only two out of a family of six that were avid readers, and the weekly trip to the bookstore was one of the things we did together.  These are some of my […]