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What If?: From Idea to Book

My wife, a cancer physician, recently asked me where a story for a novelist begins. As a scientist and as a very close and insightful reader of my novels, she was articulating a question that many non-writers and beginning writers have about the creative process; namely, where does a novel start? I’m not a scientist, nor am I someone who…

Living Through Loss

How does a parent survive the death of a child? Losing a child suggests that the world has been turned topsy-turvy, upside-down. Parents are supposed to die before their children. That’s the natural order of things. So how does one survive that most unnatural and unimaginable events? That’s the problem I posed for my main character, Elizabeth, in Resting Places.…

Roadside Memorials

2015 Winner, $5000 National Tuscany Prize for the Novel, Resting Places (pub. date: March 1, 2016)

2011 Winner, Connecticut Book Award for Fiction, Beautiful Assassin

2008 Finalist, Connecticut Book Award for Fiction, Soul Catcher

Historical Novels Review Editor’s Selection, August 2007

Booksense Editor’s Selection, Sept. 2007

Awarded writing fellowship at Eastern Frontier Society, Maine, 2006

Founding Editor of American Fiction (ranked as 13^th best fiction market-Writers’ Digest)

2005 Finalist, Connecticut Book Award for Fiction, The Garden of Martyrs

Awarded month-long writing fellowship at Eastern Frontier Society, Maine, 2002

First Prize–Advocate Newspapers 1996 Fiction Award for “Nights”

Nominated-Pushcart Prize-”Heights” (story)

Nominated-National Magazine Award for “Ray’s Shoes” (story)

The Blind Side of the Heart selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club

A Dream of Wolves, starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist

First Prize-1988 Permafrost Award

Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection

New York Times Notable Book Selection 1996

Finalist-Edgar Award 1997

Finalist-New England Booksellers Association Award 1997