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Just Published: The Silence of Sorrowful Hours
New Novel: Sail on Silver Moon
First Prize: I Know You by Heart
The Silence of Sorrowful Hours has been published. You can buy it at lulu.com. Soon it will be available on Amazon. Updated purchase information will be posted.
The Silence of Sorrowful Hours tells the story of a disparate group in South Central Pennsylvania in the Civil War-era. Free Black men and runaway slaves. A Quaker farmer. A beautiful actress. A creole woman from Martinique. Together they fight the war in the only ways they can. The pacifist farmer volunteers as a nurse for the Union Army. The others form a group of "irregulars" to disrupt Confederate plans and progress. The farm's crops are grown in aid of the Union - and trees are chopped down to make coffins for soldiers killed on the field. But love, loss, anger, grief, and exhaustion take their toll on everyone, and the end of the war doesn't mean the end of suffering.
New Novel: I've begun working on my fourth novel. Working title is Sail on Silver Moon. Read about U.S. German Alien Internment camps on the Projects page.
Story published! in the San Francisco Chronicle. A short story about my old dog Max was published in the Chron on November 11, 2009. You can read it here or at SFGate.com. The photo below, taken in 1982, is of one of my sons and Max.
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"Letter to my Grand-Children upon the Election of Barack Obama" is now available on the e-publications page.
1st Prize: I Know You by Heart won First Prize in the Novel Contest at the East of Eden Writers' Conference on September 5, 2008. To read the winning submission, click here.
I Know You by Heart, is looking for an agent. You can read an excerpt on the Projects page.
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The Grass Beyond the Door is also in the "finding an agent" phase. This novel tells the story of young love ended by tragedy, but restored again before the boyfriend of the young protagonist goes off to war.
You can read some of it on the Projects page.
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Links to the first six chapters of The Silence of Sorrowful Hours, some short stories, an essay and two poems are available on the e-publications page.
