Coming of age, darkly: Fiction about deeply troubled teens
Best coming-of-age fiction about deeply troubled teens Coming of age is a threshold - but where does it lead? And what are we becoming? And while we grow out of [...]
On the Road in the 21st Century
The best road trips aren't planned, they just happen. Jack Kerouac's On the Road seems to just happen; he writes in an episodic, stream-of-consciousness burst of life. Kerouac is a [...]
Best Bios about 18th & 19th century crossdressers
As the author of the historical novel Star-Crossed, a title that plays on the practice of cross-dressing, I was asked by Ben Fox, founder of Shepherd.com to share my five [...]
Sea Voyages Gone Badly
Don't get on that ship! The Bounty, Essex, Pequod, Titanic, Andrea Gail, Sea Wind, Lucky Dragon -- these are names of doomed ships, the epitome of sea voyages gone badly. [...]
Blue Moon Luck, the audiobook
Blue Moon Luck "Ambition, determination, drugs, booze, the raging hormones of youth are masterfully brought to life in this great piece of literary fiction. One of the best books I’ve [...]
Bad choices make good fiction
Bad choices -- we've all made them and they can affect our lives and the lives of others for years to come. Delayed repercussions can knock you to the ground [...]
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird influenced me greatly as a young reader. While Atticus was the hero of that book, I identified with young Scout, a tomboy (as I [...]
Award-winning manuscript to be published 20 years later
Twenty years ago I wrote a novel, one of my first, and entered it in the 1996 Maui Writers Conference Contest -- where producer/director/actor Ron Howard would be the featured [...]
Looking for Redfeather — Literary Fiction’s Spring Spotlight Award
Pleased to share the just-released review of Looking for Redfeather, recipient of Literary Fiction Book Review's Spring Spotlight Award. "Some teens are just unmanageable – getting crazy ideas and making [...]
Coming of Age at Sea: The Guinea Boat
Merellä" (At Sea) Oil on canvas by Albert Edelfelt, a Finnish artist, in 1883. Thanks to Curtis William Erling White and Barista Uno, shipmates aboard All Things Nautical, a [...]