Among Our Titles

Available in print & digital for every reader….

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Rootbound: a Novella

Robert Houseman believed he had left his past behind—until it showed up on his doorstep in the form of Carla…

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Journey through the Shadowlands: a Middle-Grade Fantasy Novel

Journey through the Shadowlands, published by Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, is a middle-grade fantasy novel with a social conscience, following…

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Family Ties: a Novel

Finders, Losers A lakeside cabin in the Sierra foothills, a canyon village divided between old coots and laid-back hippies, and…

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Two Modest Updates

8 Jul 2018

A couple of modest updates for those who are interested in books, more specifically in my novels.... I just dropped the price of my noir novels in .epub format to…

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Friends, Colleagues, Acquaintances! Lend Me Your Eyeballs!

2 Jul 20182 Jul 2018

If you are reading this, you probably have some interest in my writing. And that perhaps allows me to ask you a favor. But fear not! It will cost you…

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Interview with the Author

25 Jun 2018

The first book I put together was a collection of essays, Our Own Day Here, which comprise explorations of urban life in all of its aspects, from the poetry of…

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Boat Channel

18 Jun 201818 Jun 2018

Just another poem, this one in blank verse, for a change from the usual.... This bit of trapped Pacific, trammeled here by silt and broken stone: to the white hulls…

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Odds and Ads

7 Jun 20188 Jun 2018

This is the way it is: if your book does not enjoy extensive publicity, it will not sell. This is not a hard and fast rule--miracles do happen through word…

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On the Street

31 May 201831 May 2018

Just wanted to let you all know that Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, which has been foolish enough to publish two of my crime stories so far, is available at…

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“Tell Your Story, Sell Your Story”

17 May 201817 May 2018

Interested in self-publishing? Will you be in Los Angeles on June 9th? Then come on over to Book Show LA, where I'll be part of a two-hour seminar on the…

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The Price of a Burger

8 May 20188 May 2018

Yes, it's ironic that I've titled a story thus, considering that I've been a vegetarian for fifty years, but...it's not about me. This is a rewrite of one chapter…

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To Lie for Truth’s Sake: the Novelist’s Conundrum

20 Apr 201820 Apr 2018

The job of a fiction writer is to lie. Still, if it were only to lie, you could dedicate yourself to advertising or politics instead, and accept troubled sleep as…

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Rain Falls Like Rain

14 Apr 201814 Apr 2018

Here's a short story for you, one of my own favorites.... See more on my Medium site. The rain was steady now. There had been an hour of fury around…