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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Draft Cover for Nick Temple File no. 7Front Cover and Spine of Nick Temple File no. 7

My writing process isn’t a steady, linear process. At times the words flow; at times the ideas flow; at times the questions flow; and at times nothing flows. During the slow times, I try to find some way to move things along. I can proof and/or edit what I have already written, or I can do some research, or I can outline additional material. With some books I commit myself to doing something every day. I’m not...

The First Review of A String of Beads Gives it Five Stars

Well, there it is. The first review of A String of Beads and it’s a good one. Five-stars! Don’t let any writer who says, “I don’t pay attention to reviews” fool you. They do, and so do I. Here’s the first review of my latest work:

“Revisit summer as a child in Vietnam era suburbia.”“Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2022”“Verified Purchase”“Re-visit, and re-evaluate. This seering portrayal of people you probably knew will leave...

Few Things Equal Holding a Copy of My Latest Book

My copies of A String of Beads arrived today. There was some inexplicable delay in getting them, but now that they’re here, all is momentarily right with the world. Opening a package with copies of my newest book in it is one of the joys of writing. While each book is different in terms of the effort required to create it, each is treasured personally. I remember receiving copies of the first book I published. Whatever anyone else thought of the ...

“Top Gun: Maverick” Followed by 007 in “No Time to Die”

Two movie experiences defined a new world of movie-going, and one of those experiences set a new standard for an old franchise.

About two weeks ago, we saw “Top Gun: Maverick” at an IMAX theater. It was the first time we’d been to a movie theater since the pandemic started. We tried, but failed, to remember the last movie we’d seen in a theater. The theater was sold out. Every seat had a viewer in it. A few people were wearing masks, but th...