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Scott with leg brace

Thank you, everyone, for all the well wishes for my knee that have come through email and social media. I feel humbled and grateful for all this attention. For those who don’t know, about three weeks ago when I was at the dog park, a couple of our furry best friends tumbled into me from […]

The Bones of the Earth cover 2023

Just in time for the Winter Solstice: a new edition of The Bones of the Earth Launches 22:27 21 December 2023 Finally! A new, corrected edition of my first-published novel, The Bones of the Earth, is now live as an e-book. Twelve years after its first publication, the second edition has corrected the errors and […]

Echoes: Hawaiian Storm mystery 4

A Sunday sample from the new Hawaiian Storm mystery, Echoes 2019 The first time that the Kahuna was able to sneak up on Vanessa was the first time she met him, when she was 16 and he was 19. He wasn’t able to do it again for sixteen years, until a bright morning in Honolulu, […]

The magic returns

A Sunday sample from the new Hawaiian Storm mystery Echoes The first time that the Kahuna was able to sneak up on Vanessa was the first time she met him, when she was 16 and he was 19. He wasn’t able to do it again for sixteen years, until a bright morning in Honolulu, when […]

Echoes: Hawaiian Storm mystery 4

Get the fourth Hawaiian Storm mystery in the e-book format you prefer Today! Echoes, FBI Special Agent Vanessa Storm’s last case, is available NOW on a dozen different ebook etailers, including , Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, Scribd and more. In 1999, the Kahuna was The Man on Oahu’s leeward side. The coolest […]

Echoes cover image

Echoes, the fourth Hawaiian Storm mystery now available for pre-order at a low introductory price “I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” — Michel Foucault In 1999, the Kahuna was The Man on Oahu’s west coast. The coolest guy at the wildest parties, with the coolest posse, […]

Initiation Rites cover reveal

A new edition of The Bones of the Earth is coming soon—and of course, that means a new edition of Part One, Initiation Rites, as well. A new edition demands a new cover. Today, I’m proud to reveal the new cover designed by author and designer and thoroughly nice person Samreen Ahsan. Here it is: […]

Orgasmic Texas Dawn cover

Review of Orgasmic Texas Dawn I have to admit, I never thought I would enjoy reading a male-male erotic romance.  But I liked the Orgasmic Texas Dawn series by A.J. Llewellyn and the late, great D.J. Manly. Although I wish I knew what the initials stood for. Anyway, this was a straight-ahead romance with a […]

Ivan Baidak, author, in Arles, France

Author, IT specialist and peripatetic This is a very special post: a conversation with Ivan Baidak, author of Invisible and five other books. Invisible has recently been published in English by Canadian publisher Guernica Editions of Hamilton, Ontario. I met Ivan five years ago on a trip to California for a writer’s conference in Russian […]