Hope you enjoyed the second in the Red Diamond series. I’m working on putting my website back up, checking my Facebook account more than once a month, and Twitter more than once a week. Though I still have my old typewriter in the attic, it feels very 21st Century.

It was fun re-reading this, the forties meets the eighties, through a 2011 perspective. No scenes with characters talking on cell phones or sipping bottled water.

I should soon have the rights back to the next couple books—Bully! And An Eye for an Eye. They’re different in tone from the Diamond books. Bully! is lighter, a historical mystery packed with true facts about Roosevelt, who was definitely a larger than life character. How many presidents (actually at that point, an ex-president) get shot while giving a speech, get up, and finish the speech? An Eye for an Eye is a gritty police thriller, based very roughly on a real incident. I don’t want to give it away, but will probably put the details at the end of the e-book edition.

Then there’s The Borozi Control, a spy thriller written under the pseudonym Scott Ellis, and three Zen counterterrorist mysteries: Overkill, Seize the Dragon, and Gunpower. I’m working on getting the rights back on these as well.

My bio—at an early age, I was abandoned by wolves and raised by my parents. In Brooklyn, which is where I developed an early fascination with crime, a local resource, like oil in Texas. I worked in a bookstore, as a private eye, a bouncer at Studio 54, a news photographer, reporter, and freelance magazine journalist.

In mid-life, wanting to do something pro-social and a bit more stable, I earned a Masters in counseling psychology and became a therapist. Wrote a couple more mysteries: Borderline and Fixation.

It’s all about a fascination with the human condition.