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Introspective Excerpt from Kafka Novel

An excerpt from the end of Chapter 9, entitled The Boys of the novel, In Search of Kafka.

posted: oct 22, 2020; words: 1278; readers in past month: 265; read more…

Listed on Good Reads

My new novel is now listed on the Good Reads site, the social networking site for readers. If you’re a member, please add me as a friend and go to the page for my book and click on Want to Read.

posted: dec 11, 2015; words: 78; readers in past month: 386; read more…

Inspirational Quote

At Loyola University, I studied English, Finance and Religion. As a driving theme of this novel, I often thought about a quote from one of the books by the spiritual writer of Thomas Merton, about how we treat each other.

posted: dec 10, 2015; words: 325; readers in past month: 308; read more…

Excerpt from Novel

Several people asked that I post an excerpt from my novel. It’s difficult to choose what to post here. Some dialog would be more lively, but I chose instead something that gives you a sense of my writing abilities and a sense of the main character.

posted: sep 15, 2015; words: 707; readers in past month: 954; read more…

On Kindle

Last December I bought an Amazon Kindle to begin to understand how one uses electronic books and the like. It took me awhile to get around to dealing with the software to format one of my books for Kindle, but I’ve finally done it.

posted: jun 13, 2011; words: 624; readers in past month: 267; read more…

New Cover for Kafka Novel

Since I had to engage a graphic designer in Milan to help me to design the cover of my new book on MySQL Replication, I decided to get her to help me to redesign the cover of my novel.

posted: jan 27, 2011; words: 517; readers in past month: 232; read more…

My Kafka Novel is on Amazon

Finally, I have managed to get my novel on Amazon’s web site. It took some doing, but today it hit Amazon’s site. It looks so good there.

posted: dec 23, 2009; words: 678; readers in past month: 226; read more…

Lower Price for Kafka Novel

Although I like Lulu.com, I’ve recently encountered two problems with having them print my novel: the cost to the reader is too high; and after two months my book still isn’t in the databases of booksellers.

posted: dec 3, 2009; words: 621; readers in past month: 234; read more…

First Novel Published

At last I have finished the final corrections to my novel and published it. This is officially my first published novel — albeit a self-published one.

posted: oct 15, 2009; words: 286; readers in past month: 276; read more…

Kafka Novel is Beta Mode

My editor finished his edits of my novel in December and this past month while in the U.S. I made all of the changes that he suggested. Soon it will be for sale on-line.

posted: may 14, 2009; words: 261; readers in past month: 294; read more…

Publishing First Novel

The self-publishing of my first novel is coming together, finally. I’’ve been working on working out the layout and other factors in printing and binding the book.

posted: nov 21, 2008; words: 86; readers in past month: 270; read more…

Self-Publishing

With the new technology of on-demand publishing, it costs me nothing to self-publish my book. So, rather than not write novel or not published them, I’ve decided to publish my novels on my own.

posted: oct 21, 2008; words: 381; readers in past month: 276; read more…

My Kafka Novel is Finished

My first novel, In Search of Kafka is finally finished. I sent out the first query letter with a sample chapter to a literary agent in New York. I will be sending more queries to other agents.

posted: jul 12, 2006; words: 149; readers in past month: 237; read more…