Three for three! Happy to announce that One for the Ark is a 2016 national #ForewordINDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in General Fiction. Warming Up was a finalist in 2013 and Saluting the Sun in 2015. Big winner to be announced June 24 at the American Library Association in Chicago. Hope springs eternal! ...Read More
One for the Ark is a Round One Finalist in the 2017 Illinois Soon To Be Famous Author Project sponsored by the Illinois Library Association. Got my fingers crossed for the March 6 announcement of the 3 Finalists. My second novel, Warming Up, was a Top 3 Finalist in the inaugural STBF Project in 2013. I...Read More
I recently attended the Oswego Literary Festival at the beautiful Oswego Library District Oswego Campus. Forty-six authors were there to hawk their works, but I doubt that we sold 46 books among us. This could be depressing. OK, it is depressing. But we still made lemonade.Read More
I doubt that any of my books will ever be banned–what a boost to sales that would be!–but over the course of our history, some classics, such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Grapes of Wrath and Moby Dick...Read More
What’s in a name? This is the 25th anniversary of the restoration of the name of Russia’s second-largest city, St. Petersburg, founded by Peter the Great in 1703. For 67 years, the city was known as Leningrad in honor of the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir I. Lenin. At the beginning of WWI the...Read More
Happy to report the US Review of Books RECOMMENDS Saluting the Sun in its review. RECOMMENDED is given to 10 to 20% of the titles it reviews, and means the reviewer thinks it’s a “compelling and lasting read.” If you are looking for a lovely Christmas present, you can buy a copy of WARMING UP...Read More
Episode 163 of Library Life features an interview with me at “my mother’s library,” Mt. Prospect Public Library, on my novels and becoming a writer.Read More
David Vinjamuri gives indie published books a boost in his Forbes article, mentioning Warming Up and the other ILA Soon to be Famous Author finalists. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidvinjamuri/2014/06/06/with-ebooks-still-pricey-illinois-libraries-flex-their-marketing-muscle/Read More
April 25, 2014 One of the comforts of being a writer is getting to write. But as soon as you publish those carefully chosen words, you’re suddenly expected to become a speaker. Lawyers have the advantage in this regard of having developed their presentation skills, but courtroom drama and negotiating-table dramatics are slightly different arts...Read More
