Sometimes I can be stubborn. Back in the day, I read quite a few romances that used the word “captive” in their titles, and none of those books contained anything more sexual than kissing. Time passes, and the commonly understood words of one era take on new meanings in another.…
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This isn’t really my story. It’s Paty’s story and Dave’s story and Ellen’s story. Paty and Dave as in Cockrum. My sister, Ellen Vartanoff, who had a printed copy in her files. Back in the day, mostly in 1966, I wrote a lot of letters to DC Comics with my…
Five years in the making! The story YOU demanded! The senses-shattering conclusion you’ve been waiting for! At long last, the third and probably final Temporary Superheroine novel has released. You can buy the ebook right now on Amazon by clicking here. If you prefer to read a paperback, click here…
And I didn’t even realize it at the time. I worked on the story I now call Second Chance Reunion for many years off and on. I titled it Desert Wind and started with a simple idea. Then after a while it stumped me. When I began writing the story…
This news deserves an exclamation point because I wrote the first draft of Haunted Tenor in 2007, and here it is the end of 2017 and it is finally releasing. The backstory: My favorite opera is Verdi’s Don Carlo. The reason it’s my favorite might seem obvious: I’m an…
I found this fascinating. In Robert Tombs’ The English and Their History, I came across a line that actually caused me to think of Richard III in a new light. Hard to do, considering the dozens of histories and novels I have read that exhaustively discuss Richard III’s villainous (and…
