I don’t think this qualifies as a treat. But it is Halloween, 2018. So to avoid tricking those who rang my online doorbell expecting a blog, here goes.
I need first to express my undying gratitude to Elizabeth Lowrey for leading my efforts to create this website. For those of you who don’t know Elizabeth, she is a lovely woman of great talent and intelligence with an added touch of willingness to help others.
And help is certainly something I’ve needed to comply with my publisher’s admonition to establish some kind of ongoing contact with my readers, some of whom have been writing them to find out more about me. You see, I’m somewhat . . . if not reclusive, at least guarded. In short, I just don’t talk much about myself. So this is a bit new to me.
Since you wound up here, there’s a good chance you read my author’s page at Amazon, so you already know that much. The bio page, and this site in general, aims to augment that thumbnail with a slightly expanded picture.
As of this moment, I’m extensively reworking my first novel, Pulses, into a trilogy and prepping my latest, Diary of a Teenage Moon Goddess, for publication. My sister, Linda—whose name appears frequently throughout these pages—graciously wrote the diary entries for the Moon Goddess, and I hope to finish editing the book in the next month or two. It should be posted to Kindle shortly after.
So that’s a start. I hope you will check back periodically as I issue updates about current and future work and perhaps expound on topics of interest in the blog. I really do appreciate your interest in my writing. And have been utterly surprised at the response I’ve received from readers. And listeners. And am glad that someone appreciates my efforts to spin a few stories.
It is very rare that I ever post anything on any platform, but after reading “A Gift of Time” I just wanted to thank you.
It is without a doubt the best novel I have ever read, it meant a lot to me.
So thank you for writing it
Hi Matthew,
Thank you for taking the time to let me know you liked “A Gift of Time.” I’m always pleased to hear from readers who enjoyed a story I spent time crafting for their entertainment — and I often try to throw in some ideas they might find appealing or heartening. So, it means a lot to know someone somewhere got something out of a few of the words I wrote.
Jerry
I am so happy to hear that you are writing more amazing books! I have read everything you have written, well, at least everything on Amazon, and I have been blown away by each one. I first read Time Pebbles and thought about it for weeks after. A gift of time is my absolute favorite book. Thank you so much for sharing your talent!
Good Morning, Lindsay, Thank you for the kind comments. It’s so rewarding to realize all the time spent writing had a payoff for someone who stumbled across one of my books, especially when they enjoyed it enough to go back and read the others. I hope you’ll enjoy the next completely new novel, Diary of a Teenage Moon Goddess. I’m still reading it to my writer’s guild at the rate of 1,500 words per week, making minor editorial changes as I go. The whole book is about 115,000 words, though, so I may release it early and update after all… Read more »
Greetings,
Just finished reading ‘The Gift of Time’. Enjoyed your work immensely with great characters and plot line.
Any chance of a sequel?
Hi Geir,
Thanks for your comments. I’m really pleased that you enjoyed the characters of ‘A Gift of Time.’
I’m just finishing up the final edit of another novel and have about 50,000 words of the next novel already on the computer. After that, there is one more novel in the queue, so at the moment I have no plans for a sequel. I would, however, like to do a sequel and left ‘The Gift of Time’ open-ended to allow one if I ever get the time.