Books
Published by Writewords Press
Dreamers
It’s the 1960s in America at the height of the Civil Rights showdown. Street-savvy Thomas, desperate for stardom, meets music student, Annie, desperate for love. To impress his struggling family, Thomas drives a flashy borrowed car home to Pittsburgh from New York City and is involved in a minor accident. What was a fender bender in a snowstorm escalates into a confrontation with police...
Sundagger.net— One family, two worlds, many lifetimes
An unsuspecting Sara McClelland cannot know her hi-tech life is about to collide with an ancient tragedy. Burnt out from her job, haunted by the disappearance of her son, she finds unexpected mystery when she crawls into a sweat lodge. In the hot stones of the Indian lodge, Sara is overcome by a vision of an Anasazi man, an outcast, who evokes Sara’s seductive telecom boss. When the ancient...
Floating Point
Imagine running away to sea without giving up your day job! In Floating Point, the author and her family seek to shorten a daunting commute to Silicon Valley by moving to a boat. This travel memoir chronicles an experiment in simplicity lived beneath the radar of suburban life as the new owners of the Egret learn the ropes and are transformed by their life on the water. JOIN THE ADVENTURE!
East
EAST: A Woman on the Road to Kathmandu. Inspired by a book purchased at Fred and Pat Cody's legendary bookstore on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, Shelley Buck took off alone in 1972 on a journey she hoped would take her overland to India and Nepal by public transit. East chronicles that journey and Shelley's emergence into adulthood along the way.
Spiral, An epic adventure of magic realism in the ancient Southwest
Spiral by Margaret C. Murray plunges the reader into a whole gripping, magic world spiraling in crisis at the end of a culture that built Great Houses as big as the Roman Coliseum when medieval Europe was still in the Dark Ages. Young Willow waits by a dry, dusty Chaco Canyon riverbed for her lover. But when he finally comes it is just to say goodbye. Betrayed, Willow turns to a gentle hunter...
Pillow Prayers, Love Ruined, Love Reborn after the Summer of Love
"A moving and beautifully cadenced story. Anyone old enough to have lived through the tumultuous, free love, drug and color enhanced ’70s will recognize these characters. The novel is a poem where it is the images and concepts that rhyme; Ruth high on her ladder, Beth stitching and fretting, and Lonnie swimming set a rhythm we follow from the early seventies to the twenty-first century."...