Robert

Winter morning

by Robert | Dec 12, 2014 | Deception

Early morning, December 12, 2014: The Town of Russell school bus, a veritable light show of blinking and flashing amber and red and strobe lights, flies past in the pre-dawn darkness. The temperature hovers either side of freezing. The forest, gray and white save...

Moscow 1962: Deception and working truth [2]

by Robert | Dec 10, 2014 | Deception

Patrice and I are at the farm for at least the next year. Of late, the mornings have been fog-shrouded over one foot of snow. Beautiful. I work every day on The Executioner’s Son. We are in 1960-62 post-Stalin Moscow. Lenin/Stalin’s...

Deception and working truth (1)

by Robert | Oct 2, 2014 | Deception

Define the word I am writing a dramatic novel with the working title, Executioner’s Son. Deception is the backdrop against which the characters act out their roles. The locations are three: Suzdal, Russia; Moscow, and Mariel, Cuba. It opens in Suzdal,...

Upon a long road

by Robert | Sep 9, 2014 | Germany, Publishing, Travel

It has been a long road across storied lands – Croatia, Germany and the United Arab Emirates before I go to the farm. Patrice is teaching these two months in Colorado, and felt I would be underfoot, so…I’ve come to Dubai to write and visit my child. The...

A Simple Plan

by Robert | Sep 1, 2014 | Publishing, Russia

Two down; three to go There is a recent novel, A Simple Plan, where two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffel bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these...

The Wounded, The next book…

by Robert | Aug 21, 2014 | Publishing

The Wounded the second novel in The Long War series: Available to pre-order now 1 October price $4.99 Pre-order price $2.99 at: Kindle Barnes and Noble IBOOK KOBO (credit card not charged until the book is shipped on 1 October 2014) “The Wounded” is the second...