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
Blog
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.
P.S. To get monthly updates on my latest books, click here.
P.P.S. To have a peek at my wedding pictures from 8-8-08, click here (and to read our vows, click here).
A Poet of the Cello
1-20-10 | When I was a kid, there was a boy I knew in the class two grades above me (he was two years older). I knew him because we were both faculty kids: his dad was the music teacher, and my mom taught fifth grade, as well as some music and theater.
What’s Your Favorite Book?
1-4-10 | I just spent an hour as a guest on a conference call for Spencer Reynolds’s wonderful reading group, Book Readers Club
Sylvia
12-27-09 | Some of you will remember a post I wrote last summer, when Ana was traveling the globe and I sat at home on our deck in central Massachusetts, eating good meals and watching the garden with Ana’s mom, Sylvia.
Exit the Lightning Bug
12-10-09 | What a feeling: elation, exuberance, exhilaration! For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on a chapter. One chapter. I mean, one chapter, for weeks — that’s plural, more than one, weeks!
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