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Hi there! I am an avid reader and a professional writer. I've written three novels: "Loose Dogs" (unconventional romance; thrilling twist), "Can Job" (Like your job. Only funny.) and "When Libby Met the Fairies" (romance with wee folk looking on).

I also love to golf, and I adore dogs -- especially my rescue beagle-lab mix, Tessa.

Please feel free to friend me. I love to talk books!


If you like your humor on the bawdy side, check out my new short story --

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Peter’s in love...but he’s afraid to talk to her.

He’d got a great idea to grow his company’s business...but his boss won’t listen to him.

It’s the prostitution ring, though, that nearly sends poor Peter over the edge. Literally.

BJs on the Roof.

A bawdy comedy. Plus it’s got beer. Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.21 · 109 ratings · 32 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors
When Libby met the Fairies ...
2.92 of 5 stars 2.92 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
Can Job
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
101 Dog Training Tips
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006
Loose Dogs
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
Dog of Your Dreams: How to ...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011
Costume
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
BJs on the Roof
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013
The 'Vette
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
The Gem
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012
Ribbon
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011
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Charles Baudelaire
“Be always drunken.
Nothing else matters:
that is the only question.
If you would not feel
the horrible burden of Time
weighing on your shoulders
and crushing you to the earth,
be drunken continually.

Drunken with what?
With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will.
But be drunken.

And if sometimes,
on the stairs of a palace,
or on the green side of a ditch,
or in the dreary solitude of your own room,
you should awaken
and the drunkenness be half or wholly slipped away from you,
ask of the wind,
or of the wave,
or of the star,
or of the bird,
or of the clock,
of whatever flies,
or sighs,
or rocks,
or sings,
or speaks,
ask what hour it is;
and the wind,
wave,
star,
bird,
clock will answer you:
"It is the hour to be drunken!”
Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

John Updike
“The Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring
by John Updike

When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens,
And cups are freshly cut, and birdies sing,
Triumphantly the stifled golfer preens
In cleats and slacks once more, and checks his swing.

This year, he vows, his head will steady be,
His weight-shift smooth, his grip and stance ideal;
And so they are, until upon the tee
Befall the old contortions of the real.

So, too, the tennis-player, torpid from
Hibernal months of television sports,
Perfects his serve and feels his knees become
Sheer muscle in their unaccustomed shorts.

Right arm relaxed, the left controls the toss,
Which shall be high, so that the racket face
Shall at a certain angle sweep across
The floated sphere with gutty strings—an ace!

The mind's eye sees it all until upon
The courts of life the faulty way we played
In other summers rolls back with the sun.
Hope springs eternally, but spring hopes fade.”
John Updike, Collected Poems, 1953-1993

W. Somerset Maugham
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
W. Somerset Maugham

Bosley Gravel
“The closer I watch politics the more it looks like professional wrestling in business suits.”
Bosley Gravel

G.K. Chesterton
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

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