Crazy New Year
It has been a crazy start to the year. Minneapolis is under siege from federal ICE agents who were sent to invade our city, starting last month. Masked, heavily armed Gestapo-like troops are rounding up anyone with brown skin, harassing them, sometimes beating them up, and occasionally deporting them. This is supposedly for immigration enforcement.…
Caravans Pursued–paperback also available for presale
August 1941, Slovakia: Jana, a young Romani woman, leaves her family’s campsite in the rugged, forested hills for her first solo mission to the Partisan camp. When she returns just before nightfall, her family’s campsite is deserted. She contacts Otto, the Prague liaison with the Czech Resistance, for help. He sneaks across the border, and…
It’s a Tough Business
Here are the 2022 sales numbers of print, front-list books, published by the top ten publishers, as excerpted from an article by Len Wilson titled, “How Many Copies Does it Take to Become a “Bestselling” Book?” and turned into a pie chart. These are the numbers he cites: Len Wilson doesn’t really answer the question…
Caravans Pursued available for presale
To be released December 1. The eBook is now available for presale; the paperback edition will be available soon. August 1941, Slovakia: Jana, a young Romani woman, leaves her family’s campsite in the rugged, forested hills for her first solo mission to the Partisan camp. Her father and brother would normally go, but today they…
Musings on Envy & Politics
I should be working on my novella. Instead, I have allowed myself to be distracted by what’s going on in the world. One of the questions that has been rattling around in my brain is why is there so much anger and venom on display for the “elites,” the “woke,” or the “liberals.” Why all…
St. Michael, MN: Book Fair, April 12
Thirty mystery writers walked into a room and then… If you want to know the rest, come to the book fair on Saturday.
Coming Soon, Caravans Pursued
Caravans Pursued will be published by Flock Publishing. They say it should be out in about six months. Hurrah! It has been a long journey to publication. I wrote this WWII historical novel in 2018 while attending a yearlong novel writing class, The Novel Writing Project, at the Loft Literary Center. Then, I spent some…
Fatal Farming Review
The past few months have been pretty distracting. Between six (!) visits to the dentist in the fall, a family member’s wedding, the holidays, and national events a few things fell by the wayside. So, I have not yet posted this review of my most recent mystery novel, Fatal Farming, which was published in October.…
New Year’s Resolutions
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Lots of people do. The top few usually involve losing weight, exercising, saving money, eating healthier, etc. Unfortunately, these items appear on lists, year after year, because we don’t follow through. The problem with these goals is that they are either too ambitious or too vague. Just what constitutes…
Health Care Insurance
A young man named Luigi Mangione shot a health insurance exec. Apparently, he was motivated by the belief that the exec was making millions by denying care to people who had paid for health insurance but couldn’t get coverage when they needed it. Like most of us, I have my tales of denied coverage and…
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