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Losing My Best Teacher

It’s hard for me to write today, but I want to take a few minutes to share with you a loss that is affecting me deeply. As I was growing up, when I didn’t understand something happening in the world around me, I’d ask my Dad about it. As often as not, he’d wind up [...]

Meeting My Readers

One of the genuine joys of being an author is getting to meet people who’ve read my work and appreciated it. I recently had a signing event at a nearby bookstore, and got to meet a number of folks who were glad to tell me what they’d thought of my book. In addition, when I [...]

Coming Attractions

While we patiently wait together forThe Light to make its way through the process from a document on my computer to a book in your hands, I thought that you all might appreciate a sense of what’s coming after that. My newest manuscript is tentatively titledThe Smoke: Tales From a Revolution – New York. In [...]

Excerpt from The Light

Editing and revisingThe Light, it’s interesting to see how the arguments of the day find themselves in the mouths of my characters. One that was dear to the hearts of the Quakers who form the central figures in this story, and which, with our knowledge of what was to come later in history, is that [...]

Cover Design for The Light

As I move along through the publishing process to the release of my next novel,The Light: Tales From a Revolution – New Jersey, I wanted to give you a sneak peek at the cover design, which I think reflects the feeling of the book very nicely. The Lightdeals with the question faced by Quakers during [...]

The Light: Tales From a Revolution - New Jersey

The second book in my critically-acclaimed Tales From a Revolution series is now in production, and should be available soon.


The Light depicts the special challenges posed by American Revolution for members of the Quaker faith.  Active participation in the Revolution was believed to run counter to their core value of nonviolence, but  British success in the struggle could lead to the loss of their hard-won religious freedoms in the Colonies.

The different approaches that members of the Societ...

Up for Discussion

The Prize lends itself particularly well to book club and classroom discussions, with its rich and carefully realistic view of life at the edges of the English settlements, but at the center of the early days of the Revolution.

To facilitate these discussions, I've prepared a set of discussion questions. They're broken out into five-chapter groups, which represent around 30 pages for each set of questions.  Meeting just once a week, your group can easily read and dissect The Prize in just over...

Cause for revolution

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most...

Excerpt from The Prize

This excerpt's been on my Facebook Wall for a long time, but I wanted to make it more accessible to all.  If you haven't already read The Prize, hopefully this will entice you do so in the near future.  Enjoy!

Caleb and Captain Mallett were just fitting the last of the shaped ribs into the first canoe when the sound of the village church bell pealed out faintly over the woods.

Straining to fit the cedar slat under the gunwale as it pulled the birch bark skin taut as a drumhead, Mallett...

Papercut, Anyone?

Such has been the patient suffering of my beloved readers, as you waited for the paperback edition of The Prize to become available, that it gives me unutterable pleasure to inform you that it is now available in your format of choice.

Whether the instant gratification of your nook, Kindle or other e-reader is your preference, or if you are a fan of the tactile sensation of turning the pages (and garnering the occasional papercut, if you're like me), The Prize is now available in your favorite...