On Rejection and Renewal: A Note to Aspiring Novelists

You’ve spent months, perhaps years, composing your novel. You’ve read and reread it hundreds of times. You’ve rethought it, rewritten it, and revised it, changed characters, dialogue and plot lines. Writing your novel is the most important thing in your life. It has absorbed your attention, almost exclusively. Both your conscious and your subconscious mind […]

The Norma Conquest

An equal parts heartbreaking and joyous novel about the family bonds we take for granted Thirty-five-year-old Jenny and her sixty-two-year-old mother Norma have always seen the world differently. Estranged for years, everything changes when Jenny learns of Norma’s dire state and rushes to New York City to make a startling discovery: her mother is sick […]

“How I Stayed True to My Family When My Career Took Off” Featured on FATHERLY

  Having reached the overripe age of ninety, I often wonder how my sons truly rate me as a dad. Did my dear wife and I do the right things in nurturing them, raising them, guiding them? Did they truly believe we were always there for them, rooting for them, understanding their ambitions and dreams? Above all, did […]