When is it as good as it can be?
I have finished composing novel # 5, the working title Resurrection, the last book in The Long War series. These five novels follow two men and two women, American and Russian, from their mid-teens to a denouement during the breakup of Yugoslavia. They...
The Netherlands, 2-12 February 2024
Dutch friends, Dick S. and Sandra D., offered Patrice and me their country house in Middelharnis. It was a ‘two birds with one stone’ opportunity. We had finished our move from the apartment in Semur-en-Auxios to the farmhouse in Chevigny thus we could count as a...
Plitvice Lakes, Croatia
Grabovac, Plitvice Lakes, and a novel During the week 18-24 October 2023 Patrice and I visited Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes region to 1). take a one-week vacation and 2) to ‘ground truth’ a chase scene which concludes my fifth novel, Resurrection. Sixteen Lakes, the...
The Robert Olen Butler with Clara Herrera Visit Semur-en-Auxios
Robert & Robert at Le Relais Bernard Loiseau in Saulieu, France and Clara Robert Olen, my buddy of several decades, and Clara Herrera visited Patrice and me in France ( FTR 15-22 August 2023). They first spent a week in Paris, where we joined them for two days,...
War in Ukraine observed from United Kingdom
Christmas Morning with grandchildren (Horsmonden, United Kingdom) Patrice and I are spending Christmas with Michelle and Nigel in Horsmonden, UK. We had met them a week ago in Calais to drive to Bruges, Belgium, for the Christmas Market, then onto England to spend the...Featured Books
Ledokhod: Spirit Falls translated into Russian
Ледоход is the translation into Russian of the novel, Spirit Falls, a coming-of-age novel set in the late 1950’s on the empty and hardscrabble borderland between Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin.
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