New Fiction
THE PHOENIX DIARIES
Now available on Amazon Kindle and Windows!
The Phoenix Diaries is a psychological novel about disillusion and rebirth—about a man who, by giving up his identity, finds it.
When Marty Castle's promising career as an actor meets with sudden failure, he joins an international agency created to fight terrorism. Disillusioned and cynical, he is faced with the opportunity to impersonate the Phoenix--a popular radical leader with Robin Hood pretensions--who, unbeknownst to his followers, has been killed. This seemingly suicidal plan is made more plausible by Marty's uncanny resemblance to the slain leader, and by a journal found next to the dead man's body. The journal makes clear that the Phoenix has for some time been psychotic, living in a fantasy world, and is no longer the leader of his organization.
What Marty finds when he undertakes this journey is both more ordinary and far stranger than all his imaginings, and in the dream world of the Phoenix he finds what he had lost in his own.
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BOZZ AND THE PRANQUEAN
Coming soon!
Boswell (Bozz) Choate is having a bad time. His girlfriend has just dumped him, his writing career is in a steep decline, the neighbor's barking dog is driving him crazy, and when he tries to find solace in literature he discovers that some malevolent force is changing the endings of his favorite books.
As he struggles to get his life back on track and start a new book, Bozz finds himself alternately trying to ignore and trying to solve the mystery of the 'book plague' infecting the city. His pursuit of the mystery leads him to an enigmatic dancer, a pair of giggling twin librarians who duel with quotations, and an irascible bookstore owner, with whom he seems to have some odd psychic connection. And after a series of bizarre and often hilarious encounters he finds himself face-to-face with the strangest being of all—the mysterious Auntie Mumser.
Bozz and The Pranquean will be available soon.
