Simply put, I’m asking you, okay begging you, to please buy my new novel Ristretto Rain. Reviewing it on Amazon would be nice too. Passing on your recommendation, if you think it is a good book, to your friends and family would be even nicer. If you don’t like it, but I think you will,…

I’m sorry for posting too much lately. I will calm it down soon. I know how much I hate signing up for a business newsletter and then receive mailings multiple times per day. But I wanted to update, the bone marrow is done (photo of the procedure this morning is below, Denise was there, wearing…

Amazon notified me that my pre-release of Ristretto Rain is # 1 for books (see here) related to coffee and tea. Mine is a novel, Romantic Suspense to be exact, but with a background theme in fine coffee roasting and making. So thanks for those pre-orders!

Ristretto Rain can now be pre-ordered via Kindle only. The official launch date is July 11th, when hopefully the ink will be dry and the paperback will be available. This is exciting after two years of work (in between medical procedures). See here. I am also on chapter nine of my new novel, a thriller,…

I know I just posted some good news yesterday morning about my renal function improving a bit. I’m in the middle of the season of having my cancer re-staged. If you are, or were ever a cancer patient, you realize how frightening these tests can be. They will tell you if you are in remission,…

Happy 4th. Quick update for those interested. I hope that you had a great July 4th. I had some good news yesterday that, unexpectedly, my kidney function labs came back much (relatively) improved. Again, normal kidney function, measured by gfr (glomerular filtration rate), is >60. I started in January 2019 at 4. Dialysis must be…

Ristretto Rain goes to the presses next week and will be available in bookstores soon after. Here is a blurb: Halem, one of Seattle’s finest coffee roasters and baristas, comes to a gorgeous but remote harbor in Washington’s San Juan Islands to escape her dark past. One day, a mysterious and handsome man comes rowing…

I called this meeting, between Sensible and me. It has been a while and, as they say, a lot of water under the bridge. Knowing that Sensible is always punctual. . . to the second, I arrived early to prepare. I had something to say. Questions to ask. I had some bones to pick. I…

First I must ask, how are you doing during these quarantine? I hope you are doing well. Okay, this is a cancer update, but unfortunately, I don’t have much to add. That itself is the story. I was due to return to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance the first week of June for my one…

There was a time in my life, where I imagined that writing books would be a lot of fun. In my very first book (A Kernel in the Pod), which I wrote back in the mid nineties, I describe how my perfect life would be a children’s book writer, living in Zermatt, Switzerland, earning six…