Sunday, November 29, 2015

There is a Goodreads Giveaway going on now to win a free paperback copy of my new novel, Fugitive From Asteron, coming out in January. Please follow the link below to enter the contest:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/163992-fugitive-from-asteron


Saturday, November 7, 2015

Conservative Book Club Features NOBLE VISION


The Conservative Book Club is now featuring Noble Vision, the medical thriller that dramatically portrays the dangers of government healthcare. This award-winning novel makes a great holiday gift.


Sunday, August 16, 2015

Fugitive From Asteron


My new novel, Fugitive From Asteron, will be published in January 2016. This is a science-fiction adventure story for young adults . . . and for the forever young.

Here's the description of this liberty-themed novel of high-adventure, first love, and unyielding courage:

In a grim world of tyranny, one man struggles to defy the norms. In a place where life is cheap, he prizes his. Where work is drudgery, he gets the one job he wants. Where passion is extinct, he loves a beautiful woman. Then he loses everything.

Fugitive From Asteron

Arial is an ace pilot who is imprisoned for sedition by Feran, the brutal ruler of Planet Asteron. The young rebel is pushed to desperation when he’s sentenced to undergo an unbearable punishment.
Feran is about to embark on a vital mission that is shrouded in the highest secrecy. But in a death-defying escape, Arial steals his ruler’s spacecraft, foiling his plans. The ship takes the fugitive on Feran’s pre-programmed course, with a mysterious cargo aboard.
 
Arial’s life is about to change forever—and with it, the fate of two planets.
 
During the stormy events that seize his life, Arial is drawn to two women. Reevah is the proud Asteronian whose strong will sets her apart in a society where all must obey. She lives for her stolen moments with Arial. But will her love for him seal her doom?
 
Kristin is the high-spirited woman of another world who falls in love with the handsome stranger who lands on her planet. But will she discover the secret of his past that will make him her mortal enemy?
 
Fugitive From Asteron takes you on a journey to two opposite worlds on the brink of a collision. It’s a tale of exotic adventure, of first love, of grit and courage, of harrowing danger, and of a shocking mystery unfolding. At heart, it’s the story of a young man’s struggle to heal the wounds of a brutal past, to learn what makes human existence possible, and to claim his own life.
 
Stay tuned for more details as the January 2016 publication date approaches!



Sunday, February 15, 2015

A DREAM OF DARING Entered in New Fiction Contest

To fans of A Dream of Daring,

The Conservative-Libertarian Fiction Alliance is a new group dedicated to supporting fiction authors who reflect pro-liberty values and who are struggling for recognition in today’s left-of-center cultural scene.

My novel, A Dream of Daring, has been nominated for the CLFA’s Book of the Year Award. Please click on the link below at Survey Monkey to vote for it. You DO NOT need to log in or give your name or email address or any personal information. Just click and vote. Thank you so much for helping A Dream of Daring, an exciting novel that pays tribute to the creativity, achievement, and glory of the individual.

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F39TY7Q. The deadline for voting is Feb. 28.

A Dream of Daring is a ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist and winner of five literary awards.

A Dream of Daring, Synopsis:

In the South before the Civil War, one man’s radical ideas and breakthrough invention threaten the townspeople’s privileged way of life, based on slavery and power.

Tom Edmunton, the science-minded son of a cotton planter, has designed the precursor of the tractor in antebellum Louisiana. He foresees a new age of mechanized farming that will empty the fields of men and replace the South’s slavery system. But the planters of his town don’t like his big ideas about changing their world or the intensity with which he’s pursuing them. As Tom hears the call of the new age, he also feels the pull of two women. Rachel, a senator’s daughter, loves him, but will she break with her family to stand by his side if the town rebukes him? Solo, a rebellious mulatto slave, despises Tom, along with every other master. Rachel is free, but is her spirit chained? Solo is chained, but is her spirit free? Tensions between Tom and the planters peak, and the tractor is stolen. “Then a shocking murder sets into motion inextricably linked events and revelations that will change life as they know it for Tom, Rachel, and Solo” (Booklist).

Murder, forbidden love, and the bitter clash of two ages unfold in this gripping mystery set during the tumultuous lead-up to the Civil War. A Dream of Daring is a haunting tale of the Old South, with its lush fields of white-gold cotton, its majestic plantations, its elegant gentry, and its embattled slaves. The novel delves deeply into the conflicts of the period that still plague the world today—the clash between progress and control, between freedom and servitude, between the limitless reach of the human spirit and the forces that work to suppress it— giving the story a relevance and immediacy in our own time.