Death Times Three: Two Stories and a Novella (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781505787184)

I am a writer and book reviewer living in Las Vegas, Nevada. I write literary fiction that crosses into genre territory. Whether historical fiction, romance, mystery or paranormal, my novels are populated by lost people who go through hell to find themselves again. In my fictional worlds, good guys finish first. Eventually. I received my B.A. in Anthropology from SUNY Stony Brook and an M.A. from Rutgers. I also did a stint in culinary school-I make a mean Black Forest Cake. My first novel The Ways of Mud and Bone explores the Amercian experience of WW I through the eye of a small-town girl whose life is forever changed when her childhood friend is killed in combat. Knife Skills, my second novel, is a retelling of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park set in Long Island's wine country. Young Chef Molly Price, raised by her aunt and uncle, is forced to reconnect with her troubled parents in order to save her five-year-old sister from foster care. As much as I love writing novels, I also work in other literary forms. My short stories, essays and poems have appeared in anthologies, literary journals and small magazines such as The Wrong Side of the Law, Red Rock Review, Italian Americana, Art Times, Mature Years, Libido, and Writing Sociology.