At my age, I’m not one who wishes my life away, but I must admit that I’m glad  2021 is behind me. It wasn’t a particularly bad eight months of the year for me as a writer because I had two novels published — Make Room for Family on February 1 and Reunion of Familiar Strangers on […]

 I gave it a shot but I couldn’t complete the National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo, challenge in November.  I only wrote for about a week, knocking out only 5,000 or so words, before throwing up my hands and giving up. I kept thinking I would get back into it after a day […]

 It’s been two months since the release of my last novel, Reunion of Familiar Strangers, the fifth book in the John Ross Boomer Lit series. Now it’s time to move on after spending time promoting the book, and frankly, taking a breather from writing. For those who follow this blog, you may have noticed this […]

The fifth book in my John Ross Boomer Lit series, Reunion of  Familiar Strangers, hits the online bookstores today. The e-version of the novel has been available on preorder from Amazon since Aug. 27. It should now be in both e-book and print if everything goes as planned from Wings ePress. And with the book being […]

 My wife and I fulfilled a “bucket list” trip earlier this month when we traveled to idyllic Mackinac Island to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary.  Overlooking the bay The 4.35 square mile island is located on Lake Huron,  between Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas. The islet is listed as a National Historic Landmark. Mackinac Island […]

 We’re a month away from the publication of my next novel, the fifth in the John Ross Boomer Lit series.  And today, I’m announcing the title and revealing the cover. Drum roll, please: The cover was designed by graphic artist Trisha Fitzgerald-Jung, who has produced many covers for Wings ePress in the past few years.  […]

Are blurbs more effective in brick-and-mortar stores where prospective readers could pick up the book off a shelf and read the blurbs on the back cover or on one of the inside front pages? Or are they stronger on websites with catchy phrases to lure in potential readers?   In other words, do they help readers […]

 While having lunch with a longtime friend, he mentioned that he enjoyed my novels but confessed that he almost couldn’t finish one because he found it depressing.  He said he stayed with it and was relieved when it lightened up to some extent. I thanked him for the feedback. I told him that the novel […]

It’s been a while since I last posted (a little more than two months) and there’s really no excuse for it. I believe it may have been a mild, or perhaps moderate, case of writer’s block because I’ve never gone that long without posting something. Did you miss me? Don’t answer that!  It’s not like […]

My latest manuscript is back in the hands of my able and trusting editor. She’ll make the edits, send it on to a proofreader, and format the work into a galley proof.  I probably added another 800 words to the manuscript, bringing the total to about 60k. There were some transitions needed between scenes, dialogue […]