My journey to becoming an author began during my time as an elementary school counselor. I had the wonderful opportunity to work with a diverse group of students from different cultures, races, socioeconomic backgrounds, and traditional and nontraditional family units. As I listened to their life stories and how they saw the world I began…
It all began in 1996. I had settled into the stay-at-home mom role and was homeschooling my three children. I had been married for 14 years, seven of which we’d spent in marriage counseling. That spring my husband, Jim, had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. No matter the amount of medications or counselors, nothing helped.…
The focus of much of life today is on technology; how can it help us do more things faster, more efficiently, and with less effort. However, for many there is another aspect of life that becomes even more important as we move away from focusing on the person to focusing on impersonal technology, that is…
I grew up in a Greek-American household in the Detroit suburbs. We didn’t go to church; we ate. Our Greek food defined us as a family. My father took us to Greektown to buy food he would prepare. It became an adventure we looked forward to every week until the riots of 1967, when he…
Khost is the creation of two men: Vincent Hobbes and A.K. Waters. Khost is a military horror novel, inspired by actual events. Khost is a real place, a province on the far eastern border of Afghanistan—a place of war, a place of death. It’s 1984, and the Soviet Union is locked in a bitter war…
It was a cold winter day in 2009 when my life changed forever, however, it would be months before I figured that out. On that fateful day, a drug-addicted surgical scrub tech assigned to my operating room purportedly stole syringes of fentanyl, a potent intravenous narcotic, from my anesthesia cart. According to news reports, investigative…
I have devoted over 40 years of my personal and professional life to researching and investigating the greatest unsolved murder in American history, the JFK assassination. I became fascinated with this event after seeing the Zapruder film in 1971. I was convinced then and am more convinced today that John F. Kennedy was the victim…
The idea for my novel A Gangster’s Garden came from a conversation completely unrelated to writing. About 10 years ago, a friend and I were talking about an article in the Los Angeles Times regarding gang violence. The article was discussing the results that local law enforcement were having in slowing down gang violence in…
This book is based on my personal experience as the daughter of a ghost mother, my journey to heal from growing up this way, and my professional work as a licensed therapist for over 20 years. The imagery of “ghost mothers” came to me in a dream in which I was chasing a woman who…
Going for Excelsior sprang from a sense that senior issues needed to be addressed from a different vantage point, specifically, the Other Side. Yes, a channeled book about the Senior experience, a collaboration between myself, a recent arrival to that age group, and the spirit essence of Rudolph Valentino, in the role of consultant! An…
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