Godspeed, Carry My Bullet is my first full-length novel. Style-wise, it’s a bit of a departure from my previous work. My first three releases (The Camaro Murders, Lady in Flames, and Power in the Hands of One) are all novellas published by Untreed Reads. They are somewhat artsy and experimental, and they don’t fit a…
The book is a collection of produced plays that I transformed into narratives. Many people ask me if there is any truth to my first story the “Curse of the Blue Vagina”, and the answer is yes and no. After all, aren’t most fictional works loosely based on a single grain of truth? For me the event…
I always enjoyed business-related writing and thought a non-fiction self-help book with life-lessons would be a fun project. But, as often happens when you put yourself out there, I discovered another path and took it: I developed a TV pilot about New York in the seventies. As they say “Write what you know” and I…
“Graywullf” actually started as an assignment in a creative writing class in approximately the year 1996. Of course, the characters, storyline, setting…indeed the entire book evolved over the last two decades into the finished product. What began as a simple story of good versus evil became much more involved with characters who embody both good…
Like most of us, I grew up being told that if I really applied myself, I could grow up and be president someday. As I got older, though, I realized this was right up there with Santa Claus on the list of lies our parents told us to keep us in line. The system has…
The Last Wife of Attila the Hun is based on both legend and history. The legends I studied came from a book called the Poetic Edda. While the Poetic Edda was written in Iceland in the thirteenth century, the “eddas” or poems it includes existed orally for centuries before then. Moreover, they came from other…
On a balmy summer’s evening in the historic and pretty German city of Leipzig this book was conceived. Here I was treated to the most sensational cocktail that I have ever tasted. It was so good, one could say it was “out of this world”. Master Cocktail Creator, Joerg Braun, told me that this cocktail…
“I have Faith” came from my childhood. I am not sure exactly how old I was but I was around seven or eight. It was early in the month of December and I remember praying for a dog. I thought God was going to answer my prayer for Christmas. I never got my dog for…
My wife Tamsin and I were in a Jacuzzi in the Rockies of Colorado, drinking a glass of wine (Tam claims we were drinking martinis—a point of great dispute). We were scantily clothed (this was two years before children!). It was my parent’s Jacuzzi, an outdoor one with a view of the sun setting over…
The backstory of this book started with a conversation years ago with my mother-in-law. She told me how my husband’s eye sight problems stem from when he was a child. The issue could have been corrected when he was young, but it went unnoticed. Fearing the same result in her grandchildren, she encouraged me to…
The Story Behind the Book 