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I'll be at the Cumberland, RI, Library's Book Lovers' Author Expo in February, a show for local authors.

I like doing this show just to spend some time in the old monastery that serves as Cumberland's library today. The…

Y'up, I'm selling and signing books at this event, which benefits Exeter, Rhode Island's library. Glad to support that.

Unlike the book fair in Brookfield, MA, September 17, there's a lot of everything in Exeter; art works, crafts, local…

Saturday, September 17, Brookfield Orchards hosts its annual Local Authors Fair. Authors from around New England will be signing and selling their works. It's a great time to talk to the folks who created the stories, and there's always plenty…

Summer's over. Time to get back to work -- as a publisher. I'm still writing; "No Teammates in Motocross," a sequel of sorts to "Motocross Summer." But getting books into readers' hands is "a whole 'nutha trip."

I started…

Every year the Boston Globe publishes its Summer Reading List, wtih recommendations for the best new books. 
There’s a list of Young Adult books I always want to check out. No, I’m not checking to see if they chose one…

Bertrand Russell said:

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

You'd think he was alive today. 

I just found out that Hendricks Motorsports plans to run the new Cup car in the 24 Hours (or "Heures" or something) of LeMans. That is SO cool. For one thing, the new cars can compete, particularly with all the…

For one thing, the words for my latest, No Teammates in Motocross, the sequel to my Red Racecar young adult novel Motocross Summer. The title pretty much describes the plot and reveals the conflict between two - well -…

You'd think that two-years of isolation would be welcome by writers, those legendary recluses who slave away at their keyboards even while the world falls apart around them. I've never been able to be THAT reclusive. All the nonsense of…

I am, actually.

I must apologize. I've neglected to continue with this blog. I've actually neglected to continue with a lot - much of this required by the insanity we're all living these days, but admittedly also a lack…

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RHODE ISLAND AUTHOR WINS 2020 INDIEREADER DISCOVERY AWARD FOR ACTION/ADVENTURE NOVELS 

(JUNE 1, 2020) On Thursday May 28th, IndieReader, one of the original review-services for self, hybrid and independently published authors, announced the winners of…

HEY! Look what the reviewer for Writers Digest's self-published book awards had to say about Henry Hits the Ball:

An excellent story...of a disabled young man having supreme talent, and the story of how he 
shakes up the baseball…