Novels

New Novel Chinese Restaurants Unveils 1990s Politics of Defense Both Foreign and Domestic

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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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Now Available: A New Novel Malachite Eyes

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      I’ve just released a new novel Malachite Eyes, available in paperback at Amazon.com. A departure from other genres in which I’ve written, this tale reaches back just a few years on ground familiar to most of us. You can read a short description below.

Tom Weatherly made it big on the 1970s charts with his signature song “Malachite Eyes.” He lived the good life, money no object and occasional benefits from fulsome young fans. Respected as a rock’n roller, twenty years later he found himself to be a pop star in memory only. And he wanted more.
Reviving his band The Weatherly Experience with his longtime pal Don, he found the young new players to be a handful. At the same time, he felt compelled to contribute to others in in need, both a matter of conscience and a good move for his comeback. While entertaining youngsters in Marbury House, a “safe haven for children,” he met Norah Kealy, a career social worker, the likes of whom he’d never known before.
Malachite Eyes unfolds the rip-roaring results of Tom’s campaign to return to rock super stardom while chasing Norah despite her impression of him as a self-serving, career teenage heartthrob. A rollicking story full of laughter and tears, Malachite Eyes captures the unique spirit of a time not so far in the past.

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