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My novel Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold is due out in June from Allium Press.
The search for elusive goals consumes three men…
McKinney, a forensic scientist, struggles with his deep, personal need to find the truth behind the evidence he investigates, even while the system shuts him out. Can he get justice for a wrongfully accused man while juggling life with a new girlfriend and a precocious teenage daughter?
Delroy gives up the hard life on his family’s Kentucky farm and ventures to the rough-and-tumble world of 1930s Chicago. Unable to find work, he reluctantly throws in with the bank-robbing gangsters Alvin Karpis and Freddie Barker. Can he provide for his fiery young wife without risking his own life?
Gilbert is obsessed with the search for a cache of gold, hidden for nearly eighty years. As his hunt escalates he finds himself willing to use ever more extreme measures to attain his goal…including kidnapping, torture and murder. Can he find the one person still left who will lead him to the glittering treasure? And will the trail of corpses he leaves behind include McKinney?
Part contemporary thriller, part historical novel, and part love story, Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold masterfully weaves a tale of conflicted scientific ethics, economic hardship, and criminal frenzy, tempered with the redemption of love.

In read are a couple of other stories that I hope will whet your appetite.

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portfolio is where my print and web design portfolio is housed.

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Peace.

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After you're through looking around my site here are a few other sites to check out. I recommend them and... wait a minute... I said AFTER you look around my site... hey, where you goin'? Yeah. I'm talking to you.

Save The Children
International Medical Corps
Heifer International
cancerbitch
Tara Ison
Creative Writing at Northwestern
Sara Paretsky
Libby Fischer Hellman
The Outfit
Chuck Westcott Martial Arts
Master Daniel Pesina
Master Anthony Marquez
Master Guo, Jian Hua
Shadows & Screams
Forms In Motion
Allium Press