Country lane

A new season is beginning.  Out Roading the hounds.  Summer is coming to a close.

Juniata: book one of "The Seekers"

I have written 228 pages on this one, and am almost finished.  A good month of writing, and it will be complete, though I have other books to finish before this one is released.  Cover Crow#2 by Gwen Buchanan.

Working on Revenge, the final chapter in The Highwaymen.

The front of Sheriff Skellington's home just outside of Canterbury on the Littlebourne Rd.  Scheme of mayhem and bloodshed in Tally-Ho!  It is the morning following the attack....

USCGC EAGLE exiting Portland, ME

In 1969, I was just seventeen when I took my first two week cruise on the EAGLE.  It was at the very end of Swab Summer, and before classes began.  One of my classmates (Fred Adams) took these pictures a couple of weeks ago of the EAGLE sailing out of the beautiful harbor of Portland, Maine, a place I came to know well over years of CG patrols.  As I recall, on my first Special Sea Detail, I think I was seasick before we got to New London Ledge Lighthouse at the entrance to the harbor.

Playing with book covers

This will be the cover of Simon Ravensby, book 3 of "The Rangers" series.  Found some 17th and 18th century fonts I have been playing with.  Artwork by Gwen Buchanan.  

1745 print proof arrives

Always amazed to see a book in print. Now is the time to break out the blue pencil.  

Charles I

My next novel, Stalker,  takes place in the middle of the English Civil War.
Charles is trying to hold onto the divine right of kings.  Parliament, is breathing in the heady air of democracy.  Though religion is a driving point, it is a struggle for power, in a battle that will last far beyond the end of Charles and Cromwell, until 1689 with the coming of William of Orange and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy.