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Four Free Ebooks Just in Time for Christmas!

Two Nick Temple Files, a Novella, and a 21st Century Thriller

Starting tomorrow, December 16th, four of my books will be available for free as ebooks for five days. The books are: The Holy Lance, a 21st century thriller about a shadowy cabal of Russian oligarchs plotting to reestablish the Romanov dynasty after locating a direct patrilineal heir of Peter the Great; Judging Paradise, a post-modern existential novella that chronicles a chaotic Thanksgiving on the fictitious Caribbean island of Sa...

Progress on Three Fronts

A Completed Script, Some Ongoing Research, & a New Screenplay

On November 21st, I finished the script for the documentary I’ve been writing. The process was interesting for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the process of creating a format that made sense from a production point of view. I started by using the dual dialogue feature in Final Draft. That way I could create narration and character voice overs that would be linked to corresponding visual and audio archives. For copyrig...

A Busy Summer and Fall Full of Writing

Focused Writing with a Commercial PurposeView of Kauai’s Royal Coconut Coast from our lanai

It’s been a while since I posted here for the simple reason that I’ve been busy. Back in August, I was contacted and asked to provide notes on a script then in development. After submitting my notes, I was asked about working on a potential series. The work included some initial reading and research after which I collaborated with another writer on scripts for three episodes of the proposed series. The r...

My Late in Life Epiphany: Readers over Royalties

A Meaningful New Direction for an Old Writer’s Obsession

For the last few days I’ve been making the eBook versions of my books available for free. Kindle Direct Publishing allows me to offer any or all titles for free for five days total once a quarter. A couple of years ago I did the same thing with three of the titles in the Nick Temple Files series. This is the first time I’ve done it with all ten of the books that I’ve published through Kindle Direct Publishing.

I don’t know how my results c...

“Tom Clancy Meets Raiders of the Lost Ark” – The Holy Lance is FREE July 5th – July 9th!

Download a Free Kindle Copy of The Holy Lance

Starting tomorrow, July 5th, The Holy Lance, my 21st century espionage thriller with a dash of fantasy thrown in, will be FREE if you download the eBook version on the book’s Amazon listing. This giveaway will last for five days. Described by one reviewer as “Tom Clancy meets Raiders of the Lost Ark,” The Holy Lance is a “modern Cold War thriller” about a conspiracy nearly a hundred years in the making, and the only thing standing between the conspir...

Let Me Explain is FREE July 4th – July 8th!

Download a Free Kindle Copy of Let Me Explain

Starting tomorrow, July 4th, my prep school coming-of-age novel, Let Me Explain, will be FREE if you download the eBook version on the book’s Amazon listing. This giveaway will last for five days. Here’s what award-winning director and producer Peter Farrelly had to say about Let Me Explain: “If Jack Kerouac went on the road with Holden Caufield, this is the book he would’ve written. Heartbreaking and funny at the same time, (Let Me Explain) perfectl...

All Six Nick Temple Files, Cold War Spy Thrillers, are FREE July 3 – July 7!

Download Free Kindle Copies of each Nick Temple File

Starting tomorrow, July 3rd, each book in my six-book Cold War spy series The Nick Temple Files will be FREE if you download the eBook version on the book’s Amazon listing. This giveaway will last for five days until midnight, PDT, July 7th, for each of the books: Switchback, The Heraklion Gambit, Silent Vector, The Flemish Coil, The Shadow Chamber, and The Heidelberg Gap. Download them all! They’re free for five days only. Of course, if you f...

Judging Paradise is FREE July 2 – July 6!

Download a Free Kindle Copy of Judging Paradise

Starting today, July 2nd, Judging Paradise is FREE if you download the eBook version on the book’s Amazon listing. This giveaway will last for five days. Of course, if you feel that it’s really not a huge sacrifice to pay $1.99 for something that took ten years to create (that’s right from first draft to final, this one took a decade!), you can buy the eBook version after this giveaway is over. At any rate, it’s good to have choices. And if you enj...

A String of Beads is FREE July 1 – July 5!

Download a Free Kindle Copy of A String of Beads

Starting tomorrow, July 1st, A String of Beads will be FREE if you download the eBook version on the book’s Amazon listing. This giveaway will last for five days. Of course, if you decide you’d like a paperback copy you can always buy one. Or, if you feel that it’s really not a huge sacrifice to pay $1.99 for something that took a number of years to create, you can buy the eBook version after this giveaway is over. At any rate, you have lots of ch...

Prolific Output during the Pandemic and Retirement

Time to Write Plus Motivation Equals Production

On Saturday, The Writers Club, an online literary journal, published my short story “Hit and Run.” In addition, since August 4, 2020, I’ve published three books: The Shadow Chamber, The Heidelberg Gap, both of which are Nick Temple Files, and A String of Beads, my collection of short stories. I’ve had some time on my hands.

My last day of teaching was in May of 2020. I had planned to teach for one more year, but the experience of teaching for two m...