This page is less about me personally and more about my general observations about writing. I feel that reading a person’s book gives a clearer insight into the author then anything I can say about myself.
I was forced to self-publish when I discovered that traditional publishers wanted to cherry pick my literary offerings (my stuff). I write in three genres and may expand my scope in future. All of them wanted Attucks and Bittersweet Rivalries. None of them wanted my short stories claiming that this genre had forever fallen out of favor with the literate public but I think these stories will be my salvation. I am marketing the whimsical tales to Eastern Seaboard Beach readers—a demographic I was once a member in good standing. People who enjoy the quiet solitude behind a tactile paperback often have children to look after and the short story genre serves them well.
For people with more leisure time, I also offer general fiction genre in Novel form. Among future offerings is a Vietnam Era family saga quartet, an Adirondac fantasy, a College drama from the 60’s, and my favorite—a novel that explains Yankee-Red Sox rivalry which was inspired by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s ‘Wait Till Next Year’ which I heartily recommend to all my readers as well as any other book she has authored.
I also write Historical Fiction because I was haunted by a random hallway trivia question in the fourth grade. My first offering is Crispus Attucks: The Recollections of a Colonial Agitator, a work I have pursued for 55 years and found I could not escape from it. I have another in the works about American Jazz players that is turning into more of a fictional drama than a history, but if push comes to shove, I will hide behind Napoleon’s quip, “History is the myth we all agree on.” I fear I have only enough endurance to write one more in this genre.