Here is a photo of me with my neighbor, Bill. Bill is a talented artist. I was walking with him in his house one day and saw this striking paiting on the wall. I commented on it and asked him what he called it. He said it’s “The Burning Bush.” I stepped back for a…

One Tribune wrote a thorough and engaging review of Tesler and the Burning Bush on the week of its release. Here are a couple snippets: “Its greatest strength is its willingness to ask very large questions through a very strange story: Can technology give humanity control without giving humanity wisdom? Can isolation change a person?…

My 14th novel, TESLER & THE BURNING BUSH, releases on October 16, almost three years to the date of my last novel, LADY TRIEU AND THE DEMON WARRIOR OF HANOI. This one has been a long time coming. It’s my longest novel with a pretty wide scope that encompasses an 8 year period of the…

I’m happy to be giving away 100 Kindle pre-release copies of TESLER & THE BURNING BUSH! The book releases on paperback and ebook on October 16, but you can get a free one early on the following Goodreads giveaway page. Valid through September 30 only!

A childhood memoir and my 14th novel released within three months of each other. I’m very happy with both of them, but for different reasons. The memoir was a simple exercise in nostalgia, in relating my memories to the person I have become later in life. A joyous, nostalgic, and poignant reminder of the way…

This is one of the basic questions I asked when writing my soon-to-be released novel Tesler and the Burning Bush. In the FROM THE AUTHOR description of the book, I wrote the following. It should give you a glimpse as to the purpose of the book. I hope it sounds intriguing, because writing it was…