Where do I begin? This book has been in my blood for eons, no kidding. Back in the 80s, while working to mend my broken heart (divorced after 25 years marriage, the cheating ex was sleeping with under age illegal), I found myself administrating relationships’ advice to the unsuspecting readers of a Southern California magazine.…
My book, Guide to Pirate Parenting, just goes to show that even the stupidest idea can become a book. Here’s how I decided to write a book that provides everything you need to know to turn your little powder monkeys into happy, healthy buccaneers! In it I answer questions such as: * At what age…
“Beneath a Buried House”, the second book in the Detective Elliot series, came to life in a frenzied atmosphere of deadlines and writers block. After suffering a year of block and self-pity, I turned in desperation to an older story that I’d previously shelved, a character study, which I adapted into an Elliot novel. I…
Some of the stories I’ve written over the years have in part, something to do with a piece of my life. In Discovery in Passion, the tale of a haunted house comes from a home I lived in when I was eight years old. I didn’t learn a great deal of details until years later…
“The Questory of Root Karbunkulus or How I Came to Befriend a Freckled Teen with Pumpkin Tinged Hair” I am often asked how I came up with the idea for “The Questory” and how I actually made it into a real live published book. Well, it’s a bit of a long story so I’ll try…
I was inspired to express myself through writing, at the early age of 16, when I realized that I would never be good enough on the electric guitar to be a rock star. I desperately needed to be famous. I couldn’t make it with my singing voice. I couldn’t dance. I couldn’t draw. There was…
It began in 2005, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. The tumor was located toward the back of the breast close to the chest wall. My best option was a mastectomy. The day before the surgery, the surgeon called. “Your pre-opt tests came back,” he said. “Your liver enzymes are close to three times…
I wanted to write a book that would transform the reader’s inner state. To literally remove the reader from this reality and deliver them to a parallel world, inhabited by humans and animals and plants, but different, too. Magical, romantic, and mysterious. My wish is for the reader to lose sight of their mundane surroundings,…
The Pink Forest was written with a certain sort of emotional bravery. The actuality of it is this is not the way most books are written. But the visionary in me said I had to do it. So, writing in the first person, I took some fascinating glimpses of life, merged my writing with my…
The Story Behind the Book 