IT’S INEVITABLE!!!! After being around awhile, an author’s books start to appear in bookstores that specialize in “Rare Books”. Does this mean your work has become “collectible” or, more likely, that so few copies have been sold that a fair number of the original print run remain in print? Recently, rare bookstores in many locations […]

Recent reports from publishers indicate that sales of my books have increased most rapidly at bookstores and distributing outlets in the following cities: Grand Rapids, Michigan; College Park, Maryland; Cleveland, Ohio; Las Vegas, Nevada; Mishawaka, Indiana; Toledo, Ohio; Secaucus, New Jersey; Punta Gorda, Florida; Dallas, Texas; and Conroe, Texas. The books in highest demand are: […]

”Human Progress Amid Resistance to Change” is currently (January 2014) the #4 Best Selling Friesen Press Book worldwide. For an excerpt, click on the Google Books link to the right. For comments and a brief description, go back to the home page and click on “Economics Books”.

My books are now available at bookstores in the following UK cities: Gloucester, Guernsey, Southport, and Fairford. I appreciate the continuing interest shown by readers in a number of European countries.

I was recently invited to write a review of the national bestseller “Dallas 1963” by Bill Minutaglio and Steven Davis. The review entitled: “Who Killed JFK? Oswald or Dallas?” appeared online in Writers’ League of Texas Scribe on November 22, the 50th anniversary of the assassination. A portion of its content appears below: Who Killed […]

  I am deeply honored to have received an invitation to serve on the Board of Directors of the Writers’ League of Texas. I have accepted and will soon begin working with other League members to encourage aspiring writers and to promote the literary goals of this nonprofit organization. My 3-year term officially begins in […]

      Two More Independent Michigan Bookstores now have my books in stock. Saturn Booksellers in Gaylord and Leelanau Books in Leland are now carrying both “21 Yesterdays” and “Two Peninsulas”. All of my books can be ordered through any bookstore but several independent bookstores have them on their shelves.

                         I am very happy to have been accepted into a well respected literary group. Based in Traverse City, Michigan Writers provides opportunities for networking, publication, and education to writers who either live in or are from the Great Lakes state. It sponsors workshops, encourages […]

”Human Progress Amid Resistance to Change” is currently (August 2013) the #3 Best Selling Friesen Press Book worldwide. For an excerpt, click on the Google Books link to the right. For comments and a brief description, go back to the home page, click on “Published Works”, then on “Economics Books”.

In all of James Michener’s great works, but especially in Hawaii and Poland, he totally immersed himself in the history of his subject before he began writing about it. He then inserted fictional characters whose lives were influenced by major events and real characters of the period. The result was always a warm and discerning […]