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  • Lucid Receives a 4 Star Review!

    November 12, 2009

    • My novel, 'Lucid', received a great review and 4 out of 5 stars on the Manic Readers website! Manic Readers review:Sloane is a typical college student who spends her free time hanging out with her friends. Her best friend, Alex, and Alex's boyfriend, Silas, begin talking about dreams and their significance on one such occasion. Over the next few days, Sloane's dreams become more and more ...
  • Lucid is now available on Amazon Kindle for only $2.99!

    November 12, 2009

    • You can now read my creepy mystery novel, Lucid, on your Amazon Kindle Reader! To purchase a copy of Lucid Kindle Edition (readable on Kindle Reader, iPod touch and iPhone), please click here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002SQKMAW Sloane Solomon is a beautiful, young college student who begins experimenting with a very intense type of dreaming known as ‘lucid dreaming’. At first, she ...
  • Slogging through the 1st Draft

    November 12, 2009

    • I wrote today's Twitter (1/2 pt. = commits to journey. Things seem to get a bit better. They're about to get way worse = Crisis 3/4 pt.) based on something I heard Andre Agassi say in an interview about his memoir. I missed the part about why he despises tennis from the start but at around the Middle of his journey to wholeness, he quits drugs and alcohol and commits to tennis for the very first ...
  • Holiday delights and curious sandpipers ...

    November 12, 2009

    • The holiday was great - the weather was kind and I loved it. The only slight problem was that for some reason I was sick as a dog the first night so was up for most of it. Unfamiliar bathrooms are never pleasant when you're ill. Still, at least I got a lot of the puzzles in my Puzzler magazine done. How I love puzzles.We also managed to see several new birds including a glorious great white egret ...
  • OLD DOGS WITH TRICKS AND TICKS

    November 10, 2009

    • Although I change my ways and means of writing to create a *thriller* for almost no reason other than the money (tough times abound), the old ways die hard (in fact, struggle with vigour).I approach 2,000 words with more trouble yet more pleasure than I anticipated.
  • The Biopsy and La Marseillaise – excerpt from Highway To Oblivion

    November 9, 2009

    • Why do we travel?  We travel out of boredom.  We travel out of fear.  We travel out of ignorance.  The best of us travel to seek wisdom.  The wisest of us realize we don’t need to travel to find it.  Patina traveled out of practicality.  She traveled to save her life.      The red Volvo station wagon hurtled through the pre-dawn fog on the route to Boston.  As she drove, grooving ...
  • My first "Finished"

    November 8, 2009

    • On the fourth of November, 2009, I finished my first novel.This novel was different from the other ones that I've written: first of all, this one was completed in less than three months. That in itself is a miracle - normally it takes me months to finish a novel, that is if I finish it at all. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's something. Secondly, with this novel there ...
  • Champagne and Gold

    November 6, 2009

    • Champagne and GoldI'm really pleased to say that Pink Champagne and Apple Juice is now available with its brand-new cover at Lulu Books. It should fairly shortly be available at Amazon and other online book stores too, so I'll let you know when that happens.In the meantime, I'm also very happy to say that Salt and Gold - which is a collection of the first forty of my meditation poems - is ...
  • Nanowrimo is Under Way...Want to Read Along?

    November 3, 2009

    • This is just a quick note to report on the progress of my Nanowrimo novel for the year, "Heart of a Dragon."  I've been working on it for three days now, and have just passed the ten thousand word point.  It's a good start.  I always suggest that people binge write at the beginning to get a buffer zone built up for the days when writing just isn't possible. As usual I have set up a ...
  • Unexpected recommendation and Amazon difficulties

    November 3, 2009

    • I was delighted to see yesterday that A Dangerous Man is one of the Recommended Reads for November on the Jessewave Review site – thank you so much. That’s cheered me greatly! Mind you, I’m rather miffed that Amazon UK are still insisting that the book is temporarily out of stock even though my publisher tells me that’s not true. Is it because it’s GLBT fiction and from a British ...