Sample chapters and excerpts from Novels I’ve published or pitching to the usual suspects.
With Virtual Identity all set to come out on February 18, I have turned my attention to Wounded Honor, episode 7 of the Tracking Jane series. I am currently in the middle of a furious pass through the latest draft before I hand it over to my Beta readers… next Monday! I better get to […]
Sandra eyed the coffee mug before reaching for the bag. Shaking, she dumped its contents on the table. She would’ve said something about not recognizing them as her clothes, but Cynth slid a key across the table. “You will need this.” Sandra frowned. “Oh, right.” She grabbed the key. Still shaking, it took her a […]
“IT SHOULDN’T TAKE LONG NOW,” Cynthia said to Agent Rodrigo Ochoa. She tapped on the large flat panel display. It showed a split view: on the left a close up of Sandra Tomek’s trembling lips and facial features, and on the right a wide angle view of the interrogation room. Ochoa stood there, arms folded […]
A while back I wrote about how a story I started as a novel turned into a short story. Well, time has passed and inspiration has struck… When I first conceived King’s Sacrifice, I envisioned it as a full length novel. In writing it, I decided it worked best as a short story, and released […]
Though long gone, the zip ties still dug into her wrists. No matter how much Sandra rubbed at the pink bruises, she felt the hard plastic cutting off her circulation. No longer asleep, her hands still tingled from the onrush of blood. And she was shivering. The air conditioning in the interrogation room had to […]
SANDRA TOMEK WAS HOLDING A GUN when the SWAT team busted through her front door. She didn’t think much of the noise. Not at first. It was all in her head, after all, coming through the thickly padded noise-cancelling headphones attached to her surround-vision visor. The sound was pounding it, too, bass-thumping techno-beat and all. […]
After setting Quantum Law aside for a couple of months, I’ve returned to it to make some encouraging progress on it. Why did I set it aside for so long? Because one of my best Beta readers told me he thought he saw three stories where I had written one. At first, the feedback rattled […]
Dear Reader, Last night, I finished the second draft of Virtual Identity. Not happy with the ending in the first draft, I more or less disposed of the last fourth of the story and wrote a new ending. I’m still not entirely sure about the ending–the new one–but it does strike me as a stronger […]
With the kids in bed, a little after 8:40 PM, Dan and I sit in the living room. He’s reading a summary report Tina left us. I read it from front-to-back in detail while the kids had lunch. But I suppose Dan doesn’t want the summary version given as to how I tend to overdo […]
I am pleased to announce that Heart Track is now available for purchase both in eBook (Kindle) and print formats. This story presented me with some unique challenges, which makes it all the more rewarding how it turned out. Again, I want to thank those loyal readers who reviewed advanced copies and shared their impressions […]
