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With several book series, as well as standalone books available, I have a good selection of different genres for the market. With the finish of The Janitor, the Next Generation, I am pausing to see if there is interest in furthering the series.

Robin's Heritage is finished under Paranormal Romance, a stand alone, at this time, but can be adjusted to a series, if necessary.

Most recently, I completed the final(?) third book for the series Angela's Torment, an archaeological thriller, with greed, intrigue, jungles, fire fights and murder. People with strong men and women.

As do many authors, I write for myself, but, as we all know, writing for just fun leads to poverty. Click the books and more button, above to see a synopsis or sample chapters of each

I like writing various genres, and even extending out to mix them. I feel this creates a less formula oriented work, and gives me a chance to put one or more important tales inside the principal story. Most of the works of those authors I have enjoyed are stories wrapped inside others, and I guess that stuck, as I started bringing these to the keyboard, some years ago!

Some say that this becomes a bit confusing, and I confess, my first three books were so bad, I had to throw them away! Too many included stories in one. But, they were great trainers for me, mulled over at length in two book clubs I belonged to at the time.

I am crossing over from the non-fiction world, where I am an accepted author for how-to's in selection, hiring and training salespeople. I've done this for years, publishing in the respective trade magazines. But, though the non-fiction world does not easily transfer to the fiction,  I like to think I have learned from my mistakes. Please check out the books and more  button above, and send me feedback! ;)

I have been, by the way, almost as wild and crazy as my daughter, over the years, but her blog is way more interesting than mine. You can see hers at this link... Karina Cooper.

Now, moving through 2011, Karina has her next three book contract, and congratulations to her for all those wonderful books headed for the bookshelves!

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Well, here is a well established but not often well thought out idea. Every writer gets to figure this out on their own, even with all the warnings:

Writing Novels is Work!

Everyone has a method, and those same people swear by their particular one. For instance, my daughter, a debut novelist this past year, and still going strong, likes laying her entire novel out on sticky notes, and though I can see the value, I do not have the patience.

A friend of mine,  a  well published non-fiction author, and a great source of critique and ideas, prefers everything in outline form, before he starts.

Mine are written in a different style, yet, not so different that I haven't seen it before. The idea chews on me for week or a month (or three) until I simply cannot ignore it any longer. I bang out the story, front to back to lock down stages. From that, I develop an outline out of the chapters, which reveals the holes. Then, more leisurely, I can fill in the blanks and flesh out the book. Weird, or what?

Of course, seeing them published would validate the theory, right?

And a further note. I have had plenty of invitations to publish my own work. And two offers to publish from small publishers with apparently shallow pockets. I am not certain how a small company like that can back a book. So, sorry, I am a traditionalist in this, and seek agents or publishers who agree. I do not mind appearances, or book signings and such, but like every successful venture I develop, it must pay for itself as it goes..  Hopefully, from there, with your work and mine, we can make something very notable through my stories...

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