When is it as good as it can be?

When is it as good as it can be?

by | Mar 12, 2024 | Book Reviews, News Release

 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...
Collegiale de Notre Dame

Collegiale de Notre Dame

by | Dec 15, 2022 | Family, Resurrection, Russia, Soviet Union

Semur-en-Auxios, France The weather in France has turned cold, between 30-34F.  I hear guffaws all the way from Northern Wisconsin. A blizzard sweeps across the northern plains and into the Northwoods as I type.  Today is an anniversary of sorts. Patrice and I arrived...
Writing in France

Writing in France

by | Nov 15, 2022 | Deception

La Coutine near Villars-Villenote My part of Burgundy (Côte-d’Or)  is a  landscape of ‘manicured’ rolling hills. The French farmers are meticulous, the crop rows straight ( three harvests a season),  the  hillsides dotted with white...
A Wedding In France

A Wedding In France

by | Sep 17, 2017 | Croatia, Germany, Wisconsin

On 10 August 2017, in Bergerac, France my daughter, Michelle Elisabeth Townsend, married. Michelle gave me 45 seconds to summarize before the assembled my impressions, recollections, hopes and fears. I wanted five days. Patrice made me sit down, write what I wanted to...
A Simple Plan

A Simple Plan

by | 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...