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Chapters 1 - 4 are now available!

Chapters 1-4 of The Silence of Sorrowful Hours is here as a pdf file. I hope you'll enjoy your reading and offer feedback.

This story is about a group of "irregulars" in southern Pennsylvania who fight the Civil War in any way they can while farming the land, trying to hold on to love, eluding slave catchers, and responding to the tragedies of war. To find out more about this book, go to the Projects page.

I've begun working on my fourth novel. Working title is Sail on Silver Moon. Read about U.S. German Alien Internment camps on the Projects page.

Story published! in the San Francisco Chronicle. A short story about my old dog Max was published in the Chron on November 11, 2009. You can read it here or at SFGate.com. The photo below, taken in 1982, is of one of my sons and Max.

"Letter to my Grand-Children upon the Election of Barack Obama" is now available on the e-publications page.

1st Prize: I Know You by Heart won First Prize in the Novel Contest at the East of Eden Writers' Conference on September 5, 2008. To read the winning submission, click here. To see the award listing on the California Writers' Club site, click here.

I Know You by Heart, is looking for an agent. Poor sad me. I abhor, absolutely abhor submitting my work to agents. It's not that I don't like rejection - although, of course, I don't - it's that I hate the process of submitting - who to send it to, in what format, what they want for the submission - first ten pages, summary, first chapter, just a cover letter - blah blah blah - until I pull my hair out!. At least I love the writing part. Pray for me...

You can read an excerpt on the Projects page.

The Grass Beyond the Door is also in the "finding an agent" phase. This novel tells the story of young love ended by tragedy, but restored again before the young protagonist goes off to war.

You can read some of it on the Projects page.

Links to the first four chapters of The Silence of Sorrowful Hours, some short stories, an essay and two poems are available on the e-publications page.