Sample chapters and excerpts from Novels I’ve published or pitching to the usual suspects.
As we gear up for the release of the Tracking Jane series, episode 1 (pre-order now!), I’ll share a preview of the first two chapters. I’m including Chapter 1 below, along with a brief synopsis. Synopsis for Shadow-7 Army canine trainer and handler Jane McMurtry served in Afghanistan with her dog Shadow until an IED […]
By early fall of 2014 I will release a new series of stories following Jane McMurtry, an injured Army veteran who has spent her adult life training warrior dogs and partnering with them to find bombs and track missing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jane comes home having suffered grievous injuries during an IED explosion. […]
Starting with DEAD BEEF, and expanding with Pink Ballerina, Decisive Moment and Active Shooter, the Our Cyber World series explores a complex world as conveyed through the different points of view and voices each story’s leading characters offer. Rather than applying a straight sequel-prequel chronological story structure, this series follows a paralellequel approach. […]
Sometimes story ideas come at odd and inconvenient times, like right in the middle of writing another story. This is how Ghost Writer‘s idea was born. While working on Beisbol Libre, a novel that brings back Cynthia Spencer into the fray, I found her such a compelling character, I had to come up with another […]
Now that Pink Ballerina has hit the beach, I wanted to let you know that along with DEAD BEEF and soon-to-be-released Decisive Moment, and a couple of other stories and novels I’m still developing, they will portray Our Cyber World, a series of parallelequels. To see how this is going to work out, let’s talk […]
If you’ve been looking for a novel about a photographer, a pink ballerina, a lesbian art agent and a white supremacist with a barrio accent, you’re in luck. My latest novel is now available at the Amazon Kindle store. Pink Ballerina is the second novel in the Our Cyber world series of “paralleleuquels” (thinking about […]
I am super pleased to report that Pink Ballerina is almost ready for release. This novel about a photographer who by happenstance takes a series of photos of a woman doing impromptu ballet moves on a beach, came about when after taking a similar set of photographes, I asked what-if. What if this photographer tries […]
Sometimes when you’re finishing a novel it’s tough because you keep getting ideas for other stories you want to start, like, right now! This bout of inspiration for a novel I’ve tentatively titled Beisbol Libre came hard and fast — and a little high and inside. I went ahead and sketched out a rough outline, […]
I like to start my stories in the middle of the action. No setting descriptions. No background. No lengthy inner dialog. I just jump headlong into it and hang on to see what happens. I don’t know if this is the right way to start a story, but it appeals to me personally. When I […]
I’m having a lot of fun pounding out the first draft of Decisive Moment. I love it when it works like this, all the details falling into place as I type, the characters coming to live and interacting and/or going at each other all on their own, and all I have to do is keep […]
