Hello! Welcome to my blog. I’ve never done this before and look forward to having the opportunity to exchange thoughts with the “internet world”. Here we go!
These are my first two novels, and I’ve had the experience of buyers asking me to inscribe their copies. The only other time in my life when I was asked to sign something was having a banker slide a promissory note across his desk and say, “Sign on the dotted line.”
I very much enjoy this interchange with buyers because it gives me a chance to meet them. Lots of fun. I’m hoping for the same experience with this blog.
I’m delighted to note the Amazon ratings for The Investigation Officer’s File are 4.6 of 5, not bad for a debut novel, and they are 4.9 of 5 for Murder at Fourth and Elm. I really appreciate folks taking time to give their opinions and ratings about my efforts, and hope you will consider doing so also.
I’ve been fortunate to been invited by book clubs and civic clubs to present the story about my novels. I hope to publish some of those events on this space.
I got the idea to write a book after I bought a book by an author whom I’d read before, but the book was awful. Very arrogantly, I said to myself, “I could write a better book than that.” Well, maybe three weeks later, I dared myself: “If you write a book, what would it be about.” I immediately recalled an experience when I reported for duty in Vietnam as a second lieutenant in the US Marines. I was assigned a legal officer position, and was approached by two prosecuting lawyers who told me they had prosecuted a Marine for crimes relating to the murder of an officer. The military panel found the Marine guilty, after which those prosecuting officers began to believe he may have been innocent. They asked me to help in the re-investigation. I dramatized that experience into File.
A friend read it and told me she wanted to know what happened to the main character, my alter ego, Woody White, and that inspired me to write Murder at Fourth and Elm.
I hope you will enjoy my efforts and let me know your “take” on each book, good and bad. Let’s stay in touch. Thanks for visiting.