My writing career began with a college textbook publication in 1970, followed by four more texts over the next twenty years. During this period, I also published short stories, poetry, and articles. My first novel, The Monkey Rope was published by Walker & Company in 1990 followed by And Baby Makes None (1991) two mysteries set in Brooklyn, NY. I turned my attention to a different time and place, New England in the seventeenth century, for Mysteries of Colonial Times, written for Berkley, and drawing upon my expertise as a scholar of New England Puritanism. The Dumb Shall Sing, the first of this series was published August, 1999, followed by The Blind in Darkness in May, 2000, and The Sea Hath Spoken January, 2001. My historical novel, Murder On Old Mission, put out in 2005 by Arbutus Press, was a finalist in the historical fiction category of ForeWord Magazine’s book of the year awards. My mystery novel, Stone Cold Dead, was submitted by Arbutus to the 2007 Edgars. Mission Point Press in 2017 reissued Murder On Old Mission and published its sequel Murder Undone. I went back to the seventeenth century to write a precursor to the Salem Witch Trials in A Suspicion of Witchcraft, an ebook original published in 2013 by Belgrave House.
I continue writing in various genres. In 2015, Broadview Press, a Canadian house, published my sixth college textbook, Templates, a sentence level rhetoric. My short stories “Mumblety-peg” and “Like Water Over Stones” appeared in Rosebud Magazine in 2018 and 2019. Subsequent to them I reworked the blog describing my being the caregiver for my wife who succumbed to early onset dementia into a book Dementia: A Love Story published by Mission Point Press in 2020 and a semi-finalist in the non-fiction category of that year’s BookLife competition.
Feeling the need to always be writing something, I now produce a regular column for the Traverse City, Michigan Record Eagle. I am also looking for a home for my literary novel Two Sisters, which explores both the Holocaust and assimilation into American culture.
From Infamy to Hope my most recent novel, published last year takes me back to the seventeenth century and New England Puritanism. It is available at Amazon and most major chain booksellers.