“I always had in my mind that I wanted to leave at least one book that would be part of my background and my life, something to be remembered by, maybe. Not just for myself because this book has a lot of spiritual inspiration as you go through it. I put a lot into this book. Seven days of the week, five, six, or more hours every single day just to get it done.”

“Life is full of controversy. Religious and political beliefs have always divided mankind. The Catholic Church, like all human institutions, has changed through time. And like all human institutions, the church has never been perfect, but today, what matters is the message of unity and brotherhood that it is putting forward. No matter what religion that you are or who you profess to be, the most important thing should be to get along with each other and to respect and love each other.”

I don't know. One day when I was eleven or twelve years old it popped into my mind to write a book about a pilot in WW2. I wrote three pages and didn't write another word of fiction for three years, when I'd been reading some really good books and it came to me again, hey, I can do that.

Everything We Had is the first in the series, No Merciful War. I'm working on the ninth book, Nos Credimus: a Novel of the Air War May-July 1943, and hope to release before Christmas. Nos Credimus follows the survivors of the characters appearing in Everything We Had, and some new characters who are necessary to the story as it unfolds.

The first book I published was about a story I did not want to die with me. I based the plot on the stories about World War II I heard from previous generations when I was a child and teenager. You see, my mother's family were Venetian Jews, and my mother, my grandmother, and various great-uncles were in the resistance. As I was revising the book, I had the idea of turning the character inspired by my grandmother into an investigative lawyer (she was one of the few women practising law in pre-World War II Italy) so I moved to writing historical crime fiction

My latest book, Venetian Gold, is a story set in Venice in 1930. It is the third story in the pre-World War II series "Rachele Modiano Mendes - the early years." Rachele Modiano Mendes, a lawyer working at the Venier-Zanin law firm, revises three contracts with the same clause. Borrowers had to use a specific shipping company, Fonda Trasporti, until they had fully repaid their loan. She is trying to figure out the reason behind the clause when the managing director, Enrico Fonda, is found dead the day her brother and one of her clients met him. Rachele must find out who killed Enrico Fonda. It is the best way to protect her client and her brother. Meanwhile, she receives a phone call from a Swiss police inspector asking for her cooperation. The contract and the Swiss police inspector are the key to the real crime discussed in the book.

For my first book, The Blackmail Enigma, I was inspired by my great great grandmother's diary which she left me. At 18, in the 1800's, she sailed from Norway to South Africa with a bunch of sailors and no other passengers. This adventure inspired my first book.

"Where Sunflowers Stand: A Traitor Ukraine. A Spy in Russia. A CIA Man. And the Fight for Freedom" is my latest book. It is an espionage thriller about a CIA officer working in Ukraine to help them find a mole. He also runs a spy in Moscow. It's an exciting tale about deceit, remorse, and pride.

Well, I've been writing from teenage years. I loved using my imagination to craft interesting stories and characters. But about two years ago, a dear friend of mine encouraged me to try publishing.

My latest book is a poetry book called Hanaki. It's a beautiful book of poetry meaning flower tree. In it the nuances of love, the healing power of trees and the fire to chase one's dreams are eloquently expressed. The poems are moving, and you'll experience a gamut of emotions and be comforted in knowing that we all share similar fears, questions and doubts.

The Divine Mind. The Divine Mind is speaking through the perceived carbon based interface.

The Dream of Matter: Waking The Mind Within The Mirage Tap into your Dream Awakening • Release the Illusion of Form • Align Waking & Dream Worlds What This Book Offers You Deep Mind-Melding: Navigate the boundaries between dreams and waking life to access hidden guidance and higher wisdom. Mindful Reflection Prompts: Carefully designed exercises unravel your subconscious experiences, then anchor them into daily reality. Visual Dream-Work Practice: Includes evocative imagery and quotes from esoteric interviews to spark intuition and inner revelation. Transformative Spiritual Tools: Learn how to free yourself from limiting mental constructs and live from a place of deeper awareness. Why 'The Dream of Matter' Is Different Blends artful narrative with active Hermetic meditation techniques. Designed not just to be read, but to be experienced and practiced. Ideal for seekers curious about lucid dreaming, mysticism, and metaphysical exploration. Who Should Read This Dreamers seeking meaning beyond nightly visions. Spiritual explorers of Hermeticism, esoterica, and consciousness expansion. Mindfulness practitioners ready to deepen their inner practices. Artists and poets inspired by dream imagery. Begin Your Journey This book is an intimate guide into the elusive realm where nightly visions merge with waking potential. Pick it up, reflect on the prompts, journal your inner landscapes, and awaken to the greater dream we call life.

I admit it: I wrote ads for a living. Most of my TV spots were crap, but a handful were at least amusing. Like my gargling toilets using what we called breath mints (for Clorox.) Or my cat who had to hire a bloodhound to find his Fresh Step litter box because the odor control worked too darn well. Or my Clio-nominated spot for SOS in which dirty pots and pans clanged out Morse-code cries for help. As a fiction author, I’ve committed several crime novels, two of which snagged local awards. But I had accomplices: my critique group. Their sharp eyes and sharper wits are an essential part of my writing process.

It almost always starts with an idea. For Voices in the Night, as one example, it started when I learned that when mobile phones were first offered, there was a whole community of hobbyists who were using radio scanners to spy on those phone conversations. I began thinking about one guy who was doing that. Putting myself inside his head, I asked myself Why would this man have this hobby? And what would make for a compelling story? In the process, I discovered who he was, his painful backstory, and the complication that the people he was listening to were being brutally murdered--by someone else with the same hobby.

So to say, my tryst with writing began with letter-writing to express my youthful feelings in private spheres. Later, it was my urge to articulate my professional ideas that led me into the arena of articles. However, in time, I happened to enter into the ‘novel’ field to examine the human condition, as Jane Austin put it, in a fictional mirror. All this I’ve pictured it in my memoir of an article, My ‘Novel’ Account of Human Possibility, that is Googleable https://share.google/87mnyS5oFnEuTo8OS

Some way into Benign Flame: Saga of Love, having been convinced that I’ve something unique to offer to the literary world through the same, I did not want to die till its completion. In the end, what Spencer Critchley, a Literary Critic, said about it - the plot is quite effective and it’s a refreshing surprise to discover that the story will not trace a fall into disaster for Roopa, given that many writers might have habitually followed that course with a wife who strays into extramarital affairs – made me feel vindicated.

Poverty! I was living in San Francisco. I was 19, barely able to pay the rent, buy groceries, etc. No TV, no radio, nothing that I could afford to fill the evenings other than reading. So I started writing to break things up just a bit.

Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil is a biography of a Mafia goodfellow who was also an FBI informant for nearly 30 years. Nothing about this man was ordinary. His life was filled with violence, deceit, and treachery right up until the day he died in a prison hospital.

There are many factors which inspired me to write. First, it was the influence of Tolstoy when I was around 12 years old. Then it was the numerous books I read from such masters as Virginia Wolf, Kazantzakis, Dostoyevsky, classical literature and philosophy and so many others. Of course my prime inspiration was Dr. David Suzuki.

My latest book, "When the Earth Died," ISBN: 979-8-9917268-1-8 published by Inkwell Books LLC. It won the International Impact Book Award in the “Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction” category in April 2025. "When the Earth Died" was inspired by the increasing devastation of the Earth and our atmosphere I witnessed during the last decade, or so. The catastrophic hurricanes, fires, glaciers melting, drought, and the depletion of the Earth's atmosphere. The book is set 25 years into the future (with flashbacks to the present). There is a great deal of discord between what the politicians are telling us and what we see happening. There is (or there will be in the future) famine, diseases, wars, devastating fires, oceans rising and totalitarian regimes. But there is a hint of hope that somehow we will prevail and our planet will not go to waste as it did three times before. “When the Earth Died” is a narrative that follows the life of Orson and Niles in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian world (2049), where the world has been ravaged by fires, environmental collapse, societal breakdown, climate change and disease which have drastically altered life on Earth. The story delves into themes of survival, loss, hope, the human condition and the existence (or the absence) of God. It explores themes of environmental destruction and human responsibility. Orson, Niles, Ciara and her son Kolten, struggle to survive this harsh new reality. They build a shelter, grow food, and navigate the dangers posed by both nature and human threats. They reflect on their pasts and strive to find meaning and stability in their disrupted lives as they navigate through the ruins of their world, dealing with personal loss, survival, the search for loved ones and the bonds of family. Orson is a reflective character who contemplates the destruction of nature and their dismal human condition. Niles is driven by the hope of finding his sister, Aberdeen, who was separated from him during a catastrophic fire that destroyed their town and family. The narrative explores themes of grief, survival, the impact of human actions on nature, and the quest for meaning and connection in a devastated world.