The Officer

My first novel. About a quarter of it was written while I was unemployed, and then working at Fidelity investments; I hit the 90% mark in a week in Cuba, and another month's work finished it off. Unfortunately, it is a terrible novel, and I'm not willing to put the work required into it to make it a good novel. I suspect it will never be published, but I plan to steal the only interesting character for another work sometime.

L.M.F.

I've been working on this one for years, really. I wrote a short story in 1998, most of it in a single night; I wrote the novel that the short story should have been while working at Descartes and Manulife, mostly in one- and two-page bursts (a new technique for me). Incidentally, the novel was shortlisted for the Mount Arrowsmith Novel-Writing Contest in 2005.

Little Green Tree of Hamilton published the novel in May, 2006. Smart move! Head honcho Dan Banko is to be credited with superior vision and judgement. I'll be doing appearances and such all summer -- see my events page for more info.

Senz Umbrell

A novel that deals with the Hamilton mafia in the modern age. Having a good deal of Italian heritage, and having grown up in Hamilton, I'm fascinated with the subject. I'm hoping that the novel is at least passably interesting to readers. It's only about 1/3 done so far, but I'm happy with where it's going and I intend to make it a full-length novel within a year or so.

Full, ongoing, blow-by-blow, tedious details are provided at the m@blog.