Hello There,Well, it's time to introduce you to my literary novel. The title? The Church of The Lighted Window. The inspiration? Hm. We'll get into that another time 🙂 I know you're busy and I want to keep this newsletter short.IN 2 WEEKS I'LL BE REVEALING THE COVER. BUT FOR NOW, BELOW, YOU WILL FIND THE BACK COVER BLURB. Just so…
I hope you're having a wonderful holiday season. I sure am. Time with family (rapid tests or otherwise) was quite nourishing for my soul. You should know that YOU are, too. At my book signings I love to say, “Every reader is a writer's best friend.” And it's true. Writing is a lonely endeavor. But a special…
Sometimes, Love Kills Detective Evan Parker has a problem: dead husbands are showing up all over East L.A.. The only thing they have in common? A woman they all once knew. The question is: how well did they know her? And why does she seem not the least bit afraid of being a suspect even after her own husband…
About a year ago, I was walking my dog when I decided to take a short cut. Near my home, there is a small alley that leads to the cul-de-sac at the end of my street. I'd walked it a 1000 times. But this time, there was some chalk writing on the path, written in a child's…
Here's hoping that you're ringing in the New Year in style and that 2019 was a good one for you. I know for some? It wasn't. For them, here's hoping that 2020 is kinder to you. As I get older, I realize that each year is rarely 100% good or bad and that 50/50 are…
Where are you going,Where do you go,Are you looking for answers,To questions, under the stars?– Dave Matthews Band So…Where Are You Going? It's a great question. Simple. Succinct. But try to answer it quickly. You probably can't. Yeah, context is part of the issue (Um…Tony…do you mean where I'm going right now, or for summer vacation,…
There's a quote by Ernest Hemingway that influenced this entire novel: “When you begin to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.” And I believe that's true. Ten years ago, I could only dream of writing because in the dreaming I was still living inside myself. I was still safe. I could do or not do, change or not change,…
What's past is prologue, they say. In many ways One Gray Day, the final book in The Parker Trilogy, is a culmination of the work put into the six books that have come before it in The Millionth Series… I cannot tell you how excited I am to publish this book. In many ways, its…
I'm not one for dragging out news, either bad or good, so I'm just gonna spit this out. The bad news? The release date for One Gray Day has been pushed out from the end of March to mid-May. Why? Well, I guess that's the good news. Now a member of The Society of Professional Editors and…
There’s something exciting about reaching the end of a story. And something sad. You’ve gone on a journey through another place, taken a tour, without a map, through other people’s lives. Does it matter that they're fictitious? I don’t think so. We’re all characters, in one reality or another. Each day we rewrite ourselves, and…