My Novels
Seven titles, 2017–2025. The Showrunner is the newest; Three Couples began it all. The backlist reaches from Czarist Russia to Marin County to Hollywood.
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The Showrunner
Hollywood Culture Clash · A novelA once-powerful Hollywood television producer trying for a career-saving comeback unexpectedly meets his romantic match in Lena, an accomplished Russian journalist with a feisty fifteen-year-old daughter. Challenged by circumstances of ambition, assimilation and coming of age, the nascent family struggles to make California the place they had all dreamed of.
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The Bar Pilot
A Search for Love · A novelRyan excelled at piloting the biggest of ships in and out of San Francisco Bay, but when it came to finding the love of his life, he was repeatedly ship wrecked. Could it be that he should have looked closer to home for the love of his life?
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The Circassian Beauty
A novelIn keeping with the reputation of Circassian women to be some of the most beautiful in the world, Natalia was stunning. So much so that Pavel was undaunted by the fact that she was married and pursued her with all the vigor and passion a handsome young Russian cavalryman could muster. Finally winning her over, her furious husband made keeping her another thing entirely.
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California Vignettes
Some storiesMy second collection of short stories, this one continues my exploration of the range of predicaments people get themselves into either by disposition or happenstance. They include a family travelling by car down the interior of California harboring much different thoughts about the reason for their trip, a couple that elects to solve their fertility problem in a most novel fashion, and The Asshole, about a man who truly was.
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Tom & Leone
Star-Crossed Lovers · A novelAs they bravely struggled against floods, locusts and Prohibition, Tom and Leone didn't know about the evil star that had crossed their paths, destining their lives to end so much differently from when they first met and fell in love.
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Wanda and the Watch
And other storiesThis collection of short stories features twelve different casts of characters interacting in twelve different situations. Their commonality is their humanity, as different as the unabashed Korean couple on a train in Spain to a paranoid Wanda with a new-found watch in Manhattan Beach to a prisoner in Mississippi's notorious Parchman Farm prison.
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Three Couples
A novel · The debutAlex, Roberta and Marie all attend a series of personal development retreats in a California redwood forest. Each of them had different motivations for attending but when they returned home to their spouses and former lives, their changed consciousness had the same results — baffled spouses and conflict.