New Novel Chinese Restaurants Unveils 1990s Politics of Defense Both Foreign and Domestic
In Spring 1992, Washington’s top defense lobbyists hone their best pitches bent on winning the lion’s share of military contracts. Except for Will Day, Director of Public Affairs at Computer Control, Inc., who sits at home trying to write a poem. A first-rate rainmaker, Will leads the congressional princes to the trough term after term, assuring safe harbor for ComCon’s top-flight program QuarterMaster. After 20 years, however, he feels worn out from breeding, feeding, and bleeding the house princes to keep ComCon’s coffers full. This year is no different.
Will longs to return to the days when he hoped to be an English professor working nights as a poet. Rest would come in winsome dreams during days beneath giant campus palm trees. But he has a family now, two misunderstandable teenagers and his lovely demanding wife who also seeks success at ComCon. Will is ready to pack it in, but the rest of the players are not, not at all. And they have their own game plans for what could be the longest year of his career. Chinese Restaurants follows Will as he negotiates what promises to be the most interesting time of his life.
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Just Up: Two Short Poems 26 Years Apart
New Chapter of Tribune of the People
New Story Posted in Time for Spring Training
Library Journal Review of TOP
New Verse, Including the First Guest Writer
Chapter 2 of Tribune of the People Ready to Read
I’ve just posted the second chapter of Tribune of the People in which Tiberius goes to the baths to meet with his father-in-law and other supporters to discuss his strategy for advancement. Before he can confer with them, however, he finds himself in an encounter other men on the rise in Rome with striking results.
Poem Drouthe Now Up
I just posted a poem that I wrote several years ago near the end of a four-year drought. Of course, at that time, we didn’t know it was soon to be over. It lasted so long that it completely disrupt the usual ways of nature. Not long afterward, the National Arbor Day Foundation reclassified Washington, DC, as a Southern climate region rather than part of the Mid-Atlantic. Considering the droughts that plague California and Puerto Rico now, the one we experienced seems to have been a minor precursor to these troubles.
Read the New Story Bad Guys Now
I recently posted Bad Guys, a story about a mob trial with a few wicked twists. A script Jury of Peers eventually evolved that received a little interest in film land. You can read the original story here.
Chapter 1 of TOB Now Available
Chapter 1 of Tribune of the People has just been posted here, in which the women in Tiberius Gracchus’s life express their feelings to him in widely different ways .
If all goes as planned, a new chapter from this novel will be posted each week. If you can’t wait (and I hope you can’t), both a trade paperback and an eb00k will be available soon from Amazon.com.
New stories and poems also will be posted on an occasional basis, so take a look and let me know what you think.
