USA Today reports that a full sized replica of Noah’s Ark is  being built on former farmland  less than an hour south of Cincinnati in Williamstown, KY, and will officially open in less than 10 months. Read More

ONE FOR THE ARK was just named a Short List Finalist in the William Faulkner/William Wisdom national Novel competition, sponsored by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. AND!!! An earlier draft of my latest novel, WARMING UP, was named a SEMIFINALIST in that same competition. Whoohoo!! My friend Julie Weary has a new novel which also...Read More

My new novel, ONE FOR THE ARK, has been shortlisted (one of 6 finalists) for the Paris Prize, given by the Paris Writers Workshop. I’m thrilled! Matt Horne, British author and himself a Booker Prize longlist finalist, is the judge. Keeping all appendages crossed!Read More

  PLEASE HELP Me MAKE THE FINALS of the AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL COMPETITION My most recent unpublished novel, ONE FOR THE ARK, is one of 480 Semifinalists in this national contest (top 20%). TEN manuscripts will make the finals, as judged by Penguin Books. Penguin will select from those entries with the most “customer reviews.”...Read More