Great works of art do not tell you what to think, they start a conversation, lines of communication that stem from something thought-provoking within said work. I aim for work that gets people talking, which indicates that something I have created gets people thinking. This is the mark of something that will be around for a while. As an author, I can ask for nothing more.

Audiences need something real, something they can relate to, situations populated by characters who could be their friends, their lover, or even themselves: people swimming in prose that hums with the anxieties of everyday life.

Now available from Star Publishing.

A character-driven murder mystery, Regret follows a religious group that decides that God's ways are working too slowly in curing gays, so they decide to take matters into their own hands. After recruiting a medical researcher looking to establish a name for himself, they set to the task of seducing then euthanizing gay men to amass a pool of test subjects to isolate a gay gene. A detective leads the case into the crop of bodies materializing around the city. All three story lines intersect, ultimately colliding to show the underside of ambition driven by the weight of the past and the effect all this has on the people we love when we are too afraid to face the decisions of which we have been a part.

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