I was reading a biography on Woodrow Wilson when a single sentence stopped me. “Edith Wilson was almost the President.” This started me on the road to finding out what really happened in 1919. What I found was that Edith Wilson faced times as rancorous as our own. Her husband was paralyzed and close to…
I wrote Corporate Citizen with current events and some speculation in mind. We’ve watched the banking crises with interest (no pun intended). We know that taxpayers bailed out financial institutions and, while they repaid the government, the lingering question was: who bails out the taxpayer? We know that inequities are rewarded in American society. Warren…
Many people are familiar with the term, “Manchurian Candidate”. It is the title of a novel written in 1959, and was the basis for two films of the same name. However, what I and most people didn’t realize was that the plot of a hypno-programmed assassin was based on fact. Then I read The Control…
My wife and I were driving down a shady residential lane in Westhampton Beach, Long Island, one summer day a few years ago when she gestured at a nicely restored old colonial house. As we passed, she said, “I know the man who bought that house. He says it’s haunted.” Oh, really? “Yes. And they…
My wife and I were driving down a shady residential lane in Westhampton Beach, Long Island, one summer day a few years ago when she gestured at a nicely restored old colonial house. As we passed, she said, “I know the man who bought that house. He says it’s haunted.” Oh, really? “Yes. And they…
Bullet in the Chamber is personal. The story explores, in part, the heroin overdose that killed my son Stephen. I came up with the title on August 24, 2011 – three days after Stephen went missing. He was gone for a week, but was eventually found dead in my car parked next to a Neighborhood…
Basically, Night Ringing is my life story, from my childhood, growing up in New York City, my father a former POW under the Japanese, then a prominent physician; my three older sisters, two of whom suffer serious mental illnesses; my parents’ divorce when I was nine; my first marriage, to a Moroccan actor; my second…
One-Way Ticket Home is a debut novel based on true events in Kristie Hardy’s life. It was Kristie’s desire to share her story and struggles with women everywhere in order to help them victoriously face their own personal battles. She wanted to show how God had brought her through and healed her from metastatic breast…
Since I always think in terms of whole books, I had the idea to write a series of short stories that would be interrelated in some way. From there each story started with a different seed –an image, a snippet of a dream, something I once saw when travelling abroad, or a random memory. The…
My co-author and I are both lifelong Democrats and huge Hillary Clinton fans. We truly believe she is a pragmatic progressive who will be able to break through the gridlock of Washington and get things done for the American people. After she announced her candidacy, we began to notice a common theme in a lot…
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