I'm about ready to push the button to let the world know that I've published my first novel! Gulp! Murder in a Zen Buddhist Monastery! Not much to say except that I hope you love it and can't wait for the second book in the series that I can't wait to get back to writing. [...]
Some years ago, I fired my literary agent. She had successfully shepherded my six non-fiction books to publication and I am grateful to her for that. I replaced her with another agent because he “loved” my Zen mystery novel, One Hand Killing. He thought that fiction writing was the direction my career should take and, [...]
Would you read a mystery novel about murder in a Zen Buddhist monastery? With monks and Zen Masters and students wreaking havoc in a secluded mountain setting? I wrote such a novel a few years ago and though my agent couldn’t sell it, I’m still convinced there’s an audience out there for it. Every so [...]
