Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -Rumi Attila the Hun Lives! I’ve been agitated lately about one thing or another, but nothing in particular. Nothing I can put my finger on. That is, until very recently. That’s when I...
Evil and Violence Never have I sat down to create fiction with the intention of writing happy, fun and lighthearted prose. Never. But don’t misunderstand me. I am not a morose person seeking to transmit my melancholy onto paper as a cathartic exercise, as if by doing...
This is what it’s like inside my head I don’t get distracted. Really, I don’t. It’s just that at times, I have conflicting writing agendas in my brain that are competing for attention; I have difficulty deciding on which one to concentrate. It’s kind of like...
Creating characters is one of the many joys of writing fiction. I love inventing characters who will be adored and hated with equal passion. Sometimes, I will infuse the actual temperaments and idiosyncrasies of people I’ve known in my life with the ones I create on...
When I started writing Persona Non Grata, I was eager to complete it in six months, fearful that the timeliness of the underlying theme — guns and gun control — would no longer be in the headlines and the topic would be yesterday’s news. I was certain that readers...
Welcome readers! I am humbled and thrilled to be sharing my thoughts with you about the two-year journey that became my third suspense novel, Persona Non Grata. To say it was a labor of love would be clichéd and totally missing the point. To be completely transparent,...