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From the new book: A scene from The Silence of Sorrowful Hours has been uploaded onto the website. "The Mechanicstown Train Depot" is a scene from one of the operations the band of "guerrilla fighters" carry out during the Civil War. Two runaway slaves, Ethan and Gideon, an actress, Adina, and a Quaker brother and sister, Osborne and Lina, live on Osborne's farm near Gettysburg. They work together to help runaways and to aid the Union in its war against the seceded Confederate States. In "The Mechanicstown Train Depot", Gideon and Adina have worked their way across the Mason-Dixon line into Maryland where they hope to destroy supplies at a Rebel-controlled train stop. I hope you'll read it and give me some feedback. Send an email.
New Essay: A letter to my grandchildren 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.
My latest novel, I Know You by Heart, is at the editor's and will soon be ready to submit to agents and publishers. In I Know You by Heart the relationship between two young lovers is ended by tragic events - the young woman's mother commits suicide and the young man is changed forever by his year in Vietnam. They live out parallel lives until they find each other again in their forties. As before, tragic events prevent them from being together. They are reunited again in their sixties and finally discover that true love never dies.
