SORCET CHRONICLES:
Meantime I tried my hand at a fantasy series. Aha! Talk about mainstreaming drugs! After almost three decades of writing nonfiction articles and newspaper stories, where I was expected to confirm (two sources, preferably) every fact and where I was expected to cram 5,000 words of information into 1800 words, the idea that I could make stuff up and then write long was intoxicating. I'm currently into my fourth book in the Sorcet Chronicles fantasy series. I'll look for a publisher shortly . . .
MANGROVE BAYOU:
When my favorite mystery writer, Robert B. Parker, died I was bereft. No more Spenser private detective books! No more Jesse Stone/Paradise Massachusetts police procedural books! What was I to do?
(Ah, you say, but the estate of Bob Parker hired other writers to continue the two series." No. I did read several of those. That ploy never works. The magic is gone.)
"Steve," I said because I talk to myself a lot, "you could write a police procedural yourself. As a reporter you have sat through lots of court cases and talked to lots of policemen and you know how the system works.
So I did. I replaced Chief Jesse Stone of Paradise, Massachusetts with Troy Adam of Mangrove Bayou, Florida.
Since then I've written four more and the first two are published in both e-book and trade paperback by Untreed Reads. CLICK HERE FOR MORE MANGROVE BAYOU GOOD STUFF
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