QUEENSBOROUGH ROCK; COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS UNTIL RELEASE

November 23, 2022: that’s the release date Queensborough Rock.my novel about rock’ n’ roll in Queens, NYC in the late sixties and early seventies.  Why are you taking so long to release the book? Queensborough Rock is utterly different than my three NJA club novels, and that’s why it’s being promoted and released differently. I have no […]

BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH KEYBANGERS BANGKOK

Keybangers Bangkok, March 27, 2022. Photo by Stephen Shaiken It’s been three years since I last met face-to face with Keybangers Bangkok, the writing group that has always nurtured and assisted me in countless ways. Some faces are familiar, others are new. Writers come from just about every corner of the globe: Romania, England , […]

BACK IN THAILAND AFTER THREE YEARS

Bingo Beach, Chonburi Province, Thailand, home of internationally acclaimed magician know as Dr. Penguin. Photo by Stephen Shaiken If any readers ever take the time to check out my biographic information on Amazon, Goodreads, this blog, or any of my novels, they’d see I “split my time between Tampa, Florida and Bangkok, Thailand.” That was […]

2021 To Be A Big Year For My Writing

My cat, Curious, who keeps me company as I struggle to create. A welcome goodbye to 2020. We have just bid farewell to the worst year America has endured over my lifetime, and I was born during the second Truman Administration. 2020 ended with numerous new historical records we’d hope to never see: a raging, […]

AMERICA, HERE I COME

A day from now I will be heading out to Souvarnabhumi Airport to board a flight back to America. Over the past three plus years, I’ve spent almost all of my time here in Bangkok. I am definitely not one of those American expats who bears America any ill will, and my time here should […]

LIFE, DEATH, AND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

After finishing the final draft of Bangkok Shadows, my weeks were filled  with proofing, formatting, downloading, uploading, side-loading and promoting, I missed sitting down and writing. So I took a break from the drudgery  and wrote this little story in one sitting, something I rarely do.  It’s a mere thirteen hundred words; I can produce […]