Books
A parable (Shawshank Redemption meets Book of Job)
Chief Finn is back, in his most suspenseful thriller yet!
A sequel to the blockbuster Barry Award-nominated thriller Steel Fear
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The Start of Something Big
This is a book Ana and I have been dreaming of writing for 17 years. It is our love letter to the world.
Bio
What I Do
I have a passion for great writing. Excellence is one of my most cherished core values.
The exquisite beauty of a powerful idea expressed in words, whether through a single sentence or a 700-page novel, is something that has stirred my soul since as long as I can remember.
So . . . What I do: I search out transformational ideas and stories and bring them to life in words.
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P.P.S. To have a peek at my wedding pictures from 8-8-08, click here (and to read our vows, click here).
Picture This
A while back I wrote about the Law of Left Field, which describes how things and events of great value come to you suddenly and from places you never expected. “Out of left field,” as the expression goes. Here is an example of that, and of how powerful it can be when...
Perseverance
This is the toughest part. Last summer I worked on an amazing book project, a memoir of a well-known public figure who struggled privately for decades with addiction and alcoholism, even as he lived publicly in the limelight of television and politics, and who...
Reflection
It’s strangely comforting to know that the oak of who we will become is already packed into the acorn of who we are, and always has been.
A New Year, A Blank Page
Reading the novelist John Irving’s memoir The Imaginary Girlfriend, I recently came upon this passage, which seems to me to speak volumes about the business of facing the infinite possibilities of a new year or, for that matter, each new day: The wonderful and...
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