BookWorks has selected me as their weekly “Featured Author.”
Please check out the BookWorks pages for me and for Adam’s Stepsons, where you will find a free Chapter 1 (PDF).
Adam’s Stepsons – BookWorks Featured Author
October 5, 2017
Adam’s Stepsons Wins Award
October 2, 2017
It’s official now! Adam’s Stepsons won “Honorable Mention” in the Readers’ Favorites yearly contest in the “Best Short Story/ Novella” category. Stoked!
Read the reviews on Readers’ Favorites here:
https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/adams-stepsons
And don’t forget to enter for a chance to win a Kindle version of the novella!
https://readersfavorite.com/giveaway?sort=title
(Don’t forget to check out the author’s interview on Literary Titan!)
Excerpt from Adam’s Stepsons
June 22, 2017
A new excerpt from Adam’s Stepsons is now available.
Thanks are due to Cindy Harris, who kindly allowed me to post information about the book on her blog, Cindy’s Notebook.
(The back cover blurb appears back to back for some reason, but that shouldn’t detract from the excerpt itself!)
Check it out!
https://blacklilackitty.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/adams-stepsons/
Final Day for Adam’s Stepsons Giveaway!
May 17, 2017
It’s the final day for the Goodreads Giveaway for Adam’s Stepsons!
Enter by 5/17 for a chance to win 1 of 5 signed copies of “a masterful novella”!
Marquez, the general, and his labyrinth
April 19, 2017
When I first started writing the kernel of what ultimately became Adam’s Stepsons, the multiple/mixed genre story The General in His Labyrinth had just been published, by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
I’d been searching for character names, desperate not to have them all sounding like the people I knew at the time (i.e., white guys in my rural hometown).
So “Marquez” sounded like a great name. I had a general in the story. General Marquez fit. Why not. Continue Reading
