Novels

Coming soon from Echelon Press.

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Eel’s Reverence – 7/10
EEL’S REVERENCE is living proof that you should never throw anything away. I had a piece of a story about a wandering monk, brother or priest being surrounded by wolves and I had a piece of a story about a mermayd on land. The mermayd piece was based on a misunderstanding of my reading of “The Forsaken Merman” by Matthew Arnold. At any rate, the two pieces came together and this was the result.

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Force of Habit – 11/10
FORCE OF HABIT answers the age-old question: What if there were Jesuits in space? Some people detest fan fiction (original fiction based on characters or worlds established by professionally published or produced writing), but I enjoy it. For one thing, it’s one way to slip a story past one’s inner editor. The basic plot and characters of this novel began life as a Star Trek (The Original Show) story called “Mudd In Your Eye” but turned into something completely different. Well, it does still have a spaceship in it.

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Sideshow in the Center Ring – 2/11
The original inspiration for SIDESHOW IN THE CENTER RING was a photograph of Salvador Dali’s entourage. To a young Midwesterner, that exotic group looked like people who were competing for attention but didn’t have enough lampshades for all of them to wear one.