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March 4, 2025

Black Lake, A Fantasy SeriesThe game in the gorges and ri...

Black Lake, A Fantasy Series

The game in the gorges and rich pastures of the highlands draw humans, giants, and little people to the Range. The majical kind follow. So do the orcs and goblins from the eastern desert. The races must put centuries of hatred behind them to live in peace.

on Amazon here

I've posted the first volume of Black Lake in its entirety here, if you'd like to give it a read

Expiring Covenant

Dead, A Suspense/Thriller Series

Aran Papadakis has an inconvenient connection with the Russian mob. Her mother was a wellknown hit-man. Aran was her planner, a carreer she didn’t pick. All good things come to an end. Aran had to run or die. She stopped running. Now fights back as she struggles to create a new life, learn what being a human means.

on Amazon here

Lycan Council, An Uban Fantasy Series

Death, taxes, and the distrust between vampires and werewolves are the only certainties in life. Carter McCown survived two hundred years as a lone wolf keeping out of lycan council and vampire court business. He’s run out of luck. Now he’s deep in the politics and it’s likely to get him killed.

on Amazon here

Revenir, An Uban Fantasy Series

Vampire is a racial slur. Revenir are noble, for the most part. A timeless queen battles to maintain the security of her kith, and takes on a human intern she finds—special.

on Amazon here

6 Ways, A Suspense Series

Margarite was born into the wrong family. Psychotic parents who killed themselves. Genius but autistic brother who engineers a potentially devastating plague. The authorities want them incarcerated. Fanatics want them dead. Mar must grow up fast. And tough.

on Amazon here

Shadows, A Suspense Series

This family saga begins during the turmoil of the Vietnam era. Two brothers follow divergent paths. A daughter searches for identity, pursued by a stalker, investigated for her rapist’s murder, she must rebuild her family ties to be whole. On the cusp of normalcy, her chaos reemerges as her uncle draws the family into international intrigue.

on Amazon here

SEEker, A Suspense Series / Dude Lit

A slacker, an autistic, and two hot studs create a surprisingly good bounty hunter partnership. If the slacker can survive. No matter how routine the nab, he’s either shot or gets the snot pounded out of him. They hunt skips between their visits to the gym, and lusting after sexy females way out of their league.

on Amazon here

Dude Lit, Manly Romance

A dude-lit un-romance, a tale of career gone wrong, with a tad of humor and suspense.Guv-Gulliver Simon loves single life. While he’s avoiding the cops for two deaths he’s tangentially connected, two women he thinks of as sisters, mostly-usually (he's a man, it's hard not to notice they're drop-dead gorgeous), have decided they don’t want to be just friends. There’re a couple others who wish to make him a daily habit too. He strives to avoid what they consider inevitable as they all become harder to ignore. It’s all a guy can do to stay sane, while making it to the gym every night.

on Amazon here

An Urban Fantasy

He appeared on the other side with no memory of his past; eagle tattoo and weightlifter-build shallow hints. History of the live-ones, their thoughts, emotions, even glimpses of their future, pours into his head though. He battles monotony, searches for purpose. His meddling endangers the lives of those he tries to help, generates ire in his fellow spirits.

on Amazon here

Personae Kory Mae, a Science Fiction Series

Soft science fiction at its best—rich characters, fuzzy aliens, loving canines, political intrigue, adventure, spying, gadding about the galaxy, love interests, shoot outs with the coolest weapons, on freakin’ cool worlds, fist fights, and jail breaks. Even a few duals by sword. Read them in order. Pure fun.

on Amazon here

New Order Apocalypse, a Series

An engineered plague shredded Earth's population. Technology keeps a starving few on the Eastern Seaboard going, where the death rate slows only because there are few alive with the gene the virus is designed to kill. While many fight to rebuild, or at least survive, a stubborn cabal resists a change in order.

on Amazon here

Clan Dyfyd, a Fantasy Series


In a world akin to the Deryni of Katherine Kurtz, this otherworld fantasy is set far in the future on a planet colonized millennia ago by humans determined to live without technology. Wars, plagues, the feudalism and customs they follow, drive them to extinction. One leader steps forward to change paths.

on Amazon here

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July 28, 2024

Black Lake, A Fantasy Series <b>The game in the go...

Black Lake, A Fantasy Series

<b>The game in the gorges and rich pastures of the highlands draw humans, giants, and little people to the Range. The majical kind follow. So do the orcs and goblins from the eastern desert. The races must put centuries of hatred behind them to live in peace. <br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=r.+mac+whe... Amazon here</a> <br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://macsnovelidea.blogspot.com/&q... sixth installment of Black Lake is serialized on my blog here</a> <br /> <br /><p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>Dead, A Suspense/Thriller Series</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="789" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <style="font-size: 125%;"><b>Aran Papadakis has an inconvenient connection with the Russian mob. Her mother was a wellknown hit-man. Aran was her planner, a carreer she didn’t pick. All good things come to an end. Aran had to run or die. She stopped running. Now fights back as she struggles to create a new life, learn what being a human means. <br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=r.+mac+whe... Amazon here</a> <br /> <br /><p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>Lycan Council, An Uban Fantasy Series</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="851" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <style="font-size: 125%;"><b>Death, taxes, and the distrust between vampires and werewolves are the only certainties in life. Carter McCown survived two hundred years as a lone wolf keeping out of lycan council and vampire court business. He’s run out of luck. Now he’s deep in the politics and it’s likely to get him killed. <br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=r.+mac+whe... Amazon here</a> <br /> <br /><p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>Revenir, An Uban Fantasy Series</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1262" data-original-width="875" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <style="font-size: 125%;"><b>Vampire is a racial slur. Revenir are noble, for the most part. A timeless queen battles to maintain the security of her kith, and takes on a human intern she finds—special. <br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=r.+mac+whe... Amazon here</a> <br /> <br /><p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>6 Ways, A Suspense Series</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <style="font-size: 125%;"><b>Margarite was born into the wrong family. Psychotic parents who killed themselves. Genius but autistic brother who engineers a potentially devastating plague. The authorities want them incarcerated. Fanatics want them dead. Mar must grow up fast. And tough.<br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=r.+mac+whe... Amazon here</a> <br /> <br /><p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>Shadows, A Suspense Series</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1251" data-original-width="858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <style="font-size: 125%;"><b>This family saga begins during the turmoil of the Vietnam era. Two brothers follow divergent paths. A daughter searches for identity, pursued by a stalker, investigated for her rapist’s murder, she must rebuild her family ties to be whole. On the cusp of normalcy, her chaos reemerges as her uncle draws the family into international intrigue.<br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=r.+mac+whe... Amazon here</a> <br /> <br /><p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>SEEker, A Suspense Series / Dude Lit</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1844" data-original-width="906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <style="font-size: 125%;"><b>A slacker, an autistic, and two hot studs create a surprisingly good bounty hunter partnership. If the slacker can survive. No matter how routine the nab, he’s either shot or gets the snot pounded out of him. They hunt skips between their visits to the gym, and lusting after sexy females way out of their league.<br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=r.+mac+whe... Amazon here</a> <br /> <br /><p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>Dude Lit, Manly Romance</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <style="font-size: 125%;"><b>A dude-lit un-romance, a tale of career gone wrong, with a tad of humor and suspense.Guv-Gulliver Simon loves single life. While he’s avoiding the cops for two deaths he’s tangentially connected, two women he thinks of as sisters, mostly-usually (he's a man, it's hard not to notice they're drop-dead gorgeous), have decided they don’t want to be just friends. There’re a couple others who wish to make him a daily habit too. He strives to avoid what they consider inevitable as they all become harder to ignore. It’s all a guy can do to stay sane, while making it to the gym every night.<br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Single-G... Amazon here</a> <br /> <br /><p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>An Urban Fantasy</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <style="font-size: 125%;"><b>He appeared on the other side with no memory of his past; eagle tattoo and weightlifter-build shallow hints. History of the live-ones, their thoughts, emotions, even glimpses of their future, pours into his head though. He battles monotony, searches for purpose. His meddling endangers the lives of those he tries to help, generates ire in his fellow spirits. <br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Tress... Amazon here</a> <br /> <br /> <p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>Personae Kory Mae, a Science Fiction Series</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="848" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <style="font-size: 125%;"><b>Soft science fiction at its best—rich characters, fuzzy aliens, loving canines, political intrigue, adventure, spying, gadding about the galaxy, love interests, shoot outs with the coolest weapons, on freakin’ cool worlds, fist fights, and jail breaks. Even a few duals by sword. Read them in order. Pure fun. <br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=r.+mac+whe... Amazon here</a><br /> <br /> <p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>New Order Apocalypse, a Series</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1209" data-original-width="837" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <style="font-size: 125%;"><b>An engineered plague shredded Earth's population. Technology keeps a starving few on the Eastern Seaboard going, where the death rate slows only because there are few alive with the gene the virus is designed to kill. While many fight to rebuild, or at least survive, a stubborn cabal resists a change in order. <br /> <p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=r.+mac+whe... Amazon here</a><br /> <br /> <p style="font-size: 125%;color:blue"><b>Clan Dyfyd, a Fantasy Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com..." style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="838" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com... <br /> <style="font-size: 125%;">In a world akin to the Deryni of Katherine Kurtz, this otherworld fantasy is set far in the future on a planet colonized millennia ago by humans determined to live without technology. Wars, plagues, the feudalism and customs they follow, drive them to extinction. One leader steps forward to change paths.<br /><p style="font-size:125%;color:blue"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=R.+Mac+Whe... Amazon here</a> <br /> <br />
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Published on July 28, 2024 13:21

Clan Dyfyd, a Fantasy Series



In a world akin to the Deryni of Katherine Kurtz, this otherworld fantasy is set far in the future on a planet colonized millennia ago by humans determined to live without technology. Wars, plagues, the feudalism and customs they follow, drive them to extinction. One leader steps forward to change paths.

on Amazon here

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Published on July 28, 2024 13:21

May 17, 2024

What I'm Up To

After publishing 40 novels I decided I would do something else. I spent some time teaching middle school math. Stopped all my social media, dropped my beautiful website.

Hadn't expected to get back to writing....

But I lost my big brother last fall...and spiraled into a dark place. To help get out, I sat down in January and wrote a sequel to my wife's favorite series, Black Lake. I had and have no intention of publishing it.

But decided to share it, so I have repurposed my old writing blog and will begin serializing the novel there. (Last published chapter will be on top...so look for the chapter number you need under the Labels on the right.)

Mac's Novel Idea (macsnovelidea.blogspot.com)

It's the sixth novel with the Black Lake characters, in the Black Lake world.

I hope you'll check in, read a chapter. If you like it, suggest it to a friend.

- Love you all.

The series' original blurb:

The game in the gorges and rich pastures of the highlands draw humans, giants, and little people to the Range. The majical kind follow. So do the orcs and goblins from the eastern desert. The races must put centuries of hatred behind them to live in peace.

The first four novels were set in a pre-industrial era. Five and six are present time, but in a world where ogres and trolls may be your next door neighbor.

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Published on May 17, 2024 11:01

What I'm Up To (Big Smile)

After publishing 40 novels I decided I would do something else. I spent some time teaching middle school math. Stopped all my social media, dropped my beautiful website.

Hadn't expected to get back to writing....

But I lost my big brother last fall...and spiraled into a dark place. To help get out, I sat down in January and wrote a sequel to my wife's favorite series, Black Lake. I had and have no intention of publishing it.

But decided to share it, so I have repurposed my old writing blog and will begin serializing the novel there. (Last published chapter will be on top...so look for the chapter number you need under the Labels on the right.)

Mac's Novel Idea (macsnovelidea.blogspot.com)

It's the sixth novel with the Black Lake characters, in the Black Lake world.

I hope you'll check in, read a chapter. If you like it, suggest it to a friend.

- Love you all.

The series' original blurb:

The game in the gorges and rich pastures of the highlands draw humans, giants, and little people to the Range. The majical kind follow. So do the orcs and goblins from the eastern desert. The races must put centuries of hatred behind them to live in peace.

The first four novels were set in a pre-industrial era. Five and six are present time, but in a world where ogres and trolls may be your next door neighbor.

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Published on May 17, 2024 11:01

May 16, 2024

New News

As a retirement endeavor, I'm re-editing my Black Lake series and making all of the novels available as serialized blogs. Hope you'll check them out.

Novel #1: <a href="https://black-lake-book-1.blogspot.co...’ Covenant</a><br><br> <font color="black">Novel #2: <style="color:blue;text-indent:20pt"><a href="https://black-lake-book-2.blogspot.co... Thrivin’</a><br><br> <font color="black">Novel #3 (in edit still): <style="color:blue;text-indent:20pt"><a href="https://blacklake-book3.blogspot.com/... Warlock Healer</a><br><br> <font color="black">Novel #6: <style="color:blue;text-indent:20pt"><a href="https://macsnovelidea.blogspot.com/&q... Thin' About Kriz</a><br><br> <font color="black">Novel #7: <style="color:blue;text-indent:20pt"><a href="https://blacklakenovel7.blogspot.com/... Bele and Hale</a><br>
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Published on May 16, 2024 14:20

November 13, 2023

Fairies Rising

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October 1, 2023

Amazon and Youtube Trailer Links

6Ways 2 Die - January 2012http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006SM2LI8 https://youtu.be/1YHamYCsBOs

6Ways 2 Mental - June 2015http://www.amazon.com/dp/B010E8N0Y0/https://youtu.be/p2gJPDUsGcc

6Ways to Where - September 2015http://www.amazon.com/dp/B015WNJJBU https://youtu.be/T5ge9WH1gUs

6 Ways to Kill - February 2016http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BDZX44Ehttps://youtu.be/SqDeeveUewA

Expiring Covenant - October 2011http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0062BVHRQht...

Hamlet Thriving - October 2011http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0062CB252ht...

Ogre Warlock Healer - October 2011http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0062CGEICht...

Warlock Apprentice - October 2011http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0062CGO14ht...

Ogreness - December 2017https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0788BKCTX https://youtu.be/q1vnXlTNhFQ

Lord's Clarity - October 2013https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GAGFS6Y

Lord Regent - November 2013http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GRKYGI4

King's Legacy - December 2013http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H4K89UC

dead maybe - April 2016http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EBA5M0Wht...

Just dead - November 2017https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07772TLTVh...

Haunting Tressel Florida - November 2011http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006GPK7V0 https://youtu.be/DsjhmFlFnSk

Saving Maggie - May 2013http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CTZZH8O

Twice the Risk - May 2013http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CZ294TO

Texas Sanction - August 2014http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N43YBY6

NOA - January 2014http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006PJJ6Q4

NOA 2 - April 2014http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K0SG2J0

NOA 3 - May 2014http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K5WB63Iht...

PKM - January 2012http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0073HU580ht...

L1060 Accord - February 2012http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007D6FGYO

First Contact - December 2013http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007UQNTXC

Tail Kicker - April 2012http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007XUDPFC

Revenir - November 2011http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0065LP58K

Revenir Intern - November 2011http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006A8ROMI

The Jennings Kid - October 2014http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P1NMJQO

Ghoul Enforcer - March 2015http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UVO96VE

SEEker - December 2011http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006NOEQLQ https://youtu.be/k3HcT9BEAs8

SEEker 2 - September 2013http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FAV3L2Sht...

SEEker 3, Taken - August 2016https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KD2IR9Uh...

SEEker 4, Hitman - November 2016https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N75Q643/...

SEEker 5, Ward of Psychos - February 2017https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06W2G7RRSh...

Two Brothers Two Shadows - June 2012http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0089E15AIht...

Living in Shadows - July 2012http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008I5TXS4 https://youtu.be/SU0emZw1UBc

Ever in Shadow - May 2017 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071LSV2V3h...

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Published on October 01, 2023 13:27

December 3, 2021

Morning in the Park

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Playing with Rumble ... let's see if this works (smile)


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Published on December 03, 2021 13:03

A wild hair--publishing a photo...Wow!

A foggy Tampa morning.
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Published on December 03, 2021 07:49