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Sponsor Me Please!!

I hope you’ll indulge me for a moment. This is personal. We have a family member with MDS blood cancer so as a thank you for all the treatment she has received, I’m raising money for THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY.  I’m […]

PROTECTING THE INNOCENT The Short Film

MOVIE PREMIERE!! Last year, an amateur filmmaker asked for permission to make a short film based on my short story PROTECTING THE INNOCENT. Well, here it is. The film switching between Malayalam and English so turn on close captioning. So I give […]

Black Cat Weekly Magazine and Me!

BLACK CAT WEEKLY has published my short story HAITIAN DIVORCE (which is inspired by the lyrics of the Steely Dan song) in their latest issue. The story previously appeared in the anthology, DIE BEHIND THE WHEEL. Thanks to Barb Goffman for requesting […]

WE WON!!!!

WE WON!! PROMOPHOBIA won best nonfiction at this year’s Agatha (Christie) Awards. I’m one of the many contributors to this book. The award is a teapot and I believe each of us will get about 5-days with the award before passing it […]

Lock Picking Hero

One of those weird things I do as part of my writer’s life is to learn how to do the things I put in my books. One such skill was lock picking.  Mrs. Simon and I took a locking picking workshop for […]

Book Hunting!

This is the Hungarian version of THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY. I had to pull a “J. R. Hartley” & buy the book from a bookstore in Romania but that’s par for the course when it comes to foreign editions. It’s usually […]