The Long War

The novels – Spirit Falls, Wounded, The Executioner’s Son, The Berlin Story, and Redemption – that make up The Long War cycle

Suzdal

Suzdal, Russian Federation

Where the novel, The Executioner’s Son, begins. On a spring day in 1953 on Illian Meadow across the Kamenka River and beneath the walls of the Suzdahl Kremlin,  Danton Larionov,...
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Suzdal & The Executioner’s Son

Suzdal, a Russian Golden Ring city, and a character in the novel ‘The Executioner’s Son Suzdal, Northeast Russia, Early 1950s and The Executioner’s Son In my forthcoming novel The Executioner’s...
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AI, the Creative Arts, and me

Artificial intelligence is at fiction’s front door. Like any innovation, it had advantages and disadvantages. You approach with care. The automobile gets you from here to there quickly and in...

Spirit Falls – Coming of Age Novel, Michigan Upper Peninsula

Spirit Falls is a coming-of-age novel set deep in Michigan's Upper Peninsula- a story of two children who find each other, and find themselves, in the wilderness. Two children. One...
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Redemption

Soldier, Son, Father, Husband Yonder man, while his spirit was diseased, Himself had joy in his own evil plight, Though to us, who were sane, he brought distress. But now, since he has...
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A Berlin Affair

Long ago, I started a novel, working title, ‘A Berlin Affair', set it aside, and wrote four other novels. I will soon again take it up. On October 7, 1973,...
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Time of troubles

We live a near idyllic life in France. However, in late of this my seventh decade, I am concerned .  Is much that I value in my western world is...
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Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

Gribovac, 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...

War in Ukraine observed from 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...

The war in Ukraine as observed from Marseille

On 6 October, I met my daughter Marci, and grandson, Joshua,  in Marseille.  I simply have not the words to describe how happy I was. Perhaps this photo of my ‘doofus’...