I grew up in several small towns. I became a city dweller long ago, but I did not wash all the smalltown off me. New York and LA get enough attention already, so I write about real people in the real world.

Books in print

Come up a Cloud  “Maesie Mattsen is the only survivor of a smalltown killing spree, but the horror she witnessed has made her too afraid to leave the sanctuary of her backyard.”
at Amazon.

The Savior of Turk  “A porn store, 200 ft. Jesus and a fainting kid from India. Just another day in Turk, Missouri.”
at Amazon

The Storm before the Calm: The Early Lives of Venus and Hiro  “The wedding that Thanksgiving weekend 1958 in Chicago should never have happened. Venus should have been on her way back to the Philippines. Hiro should have died in the war.”
at Amazon.

Coming soon

Perilous Ground: The Untold Story of Slavery along Missouri’s Northern Border “The truth behind a prairie preacher’s arrest in 1860 for calling slavery a sin.”