In The Works...
I am currently working on three different books. "We The People," is the only one that is completed. I'll be sending it to my publisher after a final read, and hopefully they will see fit to release it just before the 2012 elections. I'll keep you updated on its progress. Just to let you know what I'm up to, though, I'll give you a brief synopsis here of everything I'm working on...
"We The People"
Ethan Ward has dreamed of being President of the United States since he was eight years old. He took his parents very seriously when they told him that holding such an important job would mean putting the needs of the American people before his own wants and desires. He also had to tell the truth – always. Those words stayed with him throughout his life, even when his award-winning high school debate team visited Washington D.C. and he met H.W. Bush. When asked what career he hoped to pursue, Ethan told the President, in all seriousness, that he would one day have his job.
That dream was put on the back burner as Ethan got older and life itself got in the way. At age thirty-seven it resurfaced when his sister, Deanna, was killed in Afghanistan. The war had to end, and the President of the United States was the only one with the power to do so. America faced other problems, though: high gas prices, an economy that was on a downward spiral, a National Debt that was sky rocketing out of control, a home foreclosure rate that was unprecedented, and American jobs that were being shipped overseas allowing illegal aliens to take what was left. Ethan has logical, down-to-earth solutions for all of the problems – if he can just get the American people to listen to him. More importantly, they have to take him seriously. He’s a small town boy, owner of a small construction company. Husband to Kelly and father to Alyssa, Devon and Dillon. He loves to bowl, to hunt and fish, and he’s Wisconsin’s #1 Packer fan. He has never held a public office, though. He never went to college. He’s a simple high school graduate who loves his country more than most.
That alone is enough to impress Monica Sheffield, widow of a former U.S. Congressman, who attends the press conference in Gordon, Wisconsin when Ethan announces his intention to run for President. His own family thinks he’s slipped over the edge, but Monica sees the earnestness in his eyes and hears the passion in his voice when he talks of “serving each and every American citizen” and “preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States”. Ethan has a gift, a gift that has to be shared. He, unlike any other President in recent history, was an honest, hard-working man who would work tirelessly to make America a place its citizens could be proud to call home.
With Monica on board as Ethan’s campaign manager, the job of traveling the road to the White House begins – literally. Armed with a few volunteers and a half-million dollars borrowed from his father’s retirement fund, the write-in candidate begins an eighteen-month tour of the U.S. He travels the country in an old RV. He campaigns in AmeriMart parking lots. He meets the people, and the people support him – because he’s one of them. There’s no double-talk. No promises than can’t possibly be kept. Just a straight forward, no-holds-barred platform that brings out the worst in the other candidates, because this “nobody” just might take it all.
That dream was put on the back burner as Ethan got older and life itself got in the way. At age thirty-seven it resurfaced when his sister, Deanna, was killed in Afghanistan. The war had to end, and the President of the United States was the only one with the power to do so. America faced other problems, though: high gas prices, an economy that was on a downward spiral, a National Debt that was sky rocketing out of control, a home foreclosure rate that was unprecedented, and American jobs that were being shipped overseas allowing illegal aliens to take what was left. Ethan has logical, down-to-earth solutions for all of the problems – if he can just get the American people to listen to him. More importantly, they have to take him seriously. He’s a small town boy, owner of a small construction company. Husband to Kelly and father to Alyssa, Devon and Dillon. He loves to bowl, to hunt and fish, and he’s Wisconsin’s #1 Packer fan. He has never held a public office, though. He never went to college. He’s a simple high school graduate who loves his country more than most.
That alone is enough to impress Monica Sheffield, widow of a former U.S. Congressman, who attends the press conference in Gordon, Wisconsin when Ethan announces his intention to run for President. His own family thinks he’s slipped over the edge, but Monica sees the earnestness in his eyes and hears the passion in his voice when he talks of “serving each and every American citizen” and “preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States”. Ethan has a gift, a gift that has to be shared. He, unlike any other President in recent history, was an honest, hard-working man who would work tirelessly to make America a place its citizens could be proud to call home.
With Monica on board as Ethan’s campaign manager, the job of traveling the road to the White House begins – literally. Armed with a few volunteers and a half-million dollars borrowed from his father’s retirement fund, the write-in candidate begins an eighteen-month tour of the U.S. He travels the country in an old RV. He campaigns in AmeriMart parking lots. He meets the people, and the people support him – because he’s one of them. There’s no double-talk. No promises than can’t possibly be kept. Just a straight forward, no-holds-barred platform that brings out the worst in the other candidates, because this “nobody” just might take it all.
For The Love Of A Child (working title)
Book Two in The Brian Koski Stalker Series
When rumors of how Dan Hamilton actually died reach the Cheyenne Chief of Police, Brian Koski is forced to resign his position as captain of the Sixth Precinct and go into business for himself as a private detective. His partner? A mahogany colored Belgian Malinois named Sinbad. A former police dog, Sinbad is vicious when need be and reliable to a fault--unless a train goes by or it thunders, then chances are he will turn tail and run.
Brian's first clients are Jeff and Melody Patten. He's a struggling architect, she's a stay-at-home Mom. Both are devoted parents to their young daughter, Melissa. The problem comes in the form of one Collin Lanaski, an unstable ex-marine, who comes out of nowhere and insists that Melissa is his daughter--the same daughter who died in a tragic car accident five years earlier.
When rumors of how Dan Hamilton actually died reach the Cheyenne Chief of Police, Brian Koski is forced to resign his position as captain of the Sixth Precinct and go into business for himself as a private detective. His partner? A mahogany colored Belgian Malinois named Sinbad. A former police dog, Sinbad is vicious when need be and reliable to a fault--unless a train goes by or it thunders, then chances are he will turn tail and run.
Brian's first clients are Jeff and Melody Patten. He's a struggling architect, she's a stay-at-home Mom. Both are devoted parents to their young daughter, Melissa. The problem comes in the form of one Collin Lanaski, an unstable ex-marine, who comes out of nowhere and insists that Melissa is his daughter--the same daughter who died in a tragic car accident five years earlier.
A Ghost Story (as yet untitled)
Jenna Davey had it all. A wonderful husband, two great kids, and a beautiful Victorian-style house in the suburbs. Then came the knock on the door that changed her life. Her husband, Gary, was dead; the victim of a drunk driver. The next few days were a blur, but what would become a horrifying reality sets in all too quickly when, on the night following the funeral, both of her children awaken to find their father standing over their beds. Not possible, right? Gary was dead. Humoring her terrified children--and maybe herself--Jenna speaks to the darkness..."If it is you, Gary, you have to stop. You're scaring the children. I love you, I will always love you, but please...just go away."
It works, or at least for a while. But then things start happening again. The phone is discovered in the microwave, the silverware drawer now holds eight neatly arranged juice glasses, and the missing silverware tray is found on top of the kitchen cupboard. Even more scarey are the disembodied footsteps that traverse the upstairs hallway and always end in the slamming of a door. Strangest of all, though, are the roses Gary gave Jenna a week before the accident. They were dead when he left for work that last morning. She meant to throw them away. When the police came to notify her of his death, though, the roses were very much alive. Six weeks later, they had not even wilted.
Next came the "entity." The dense black mist that hovered near the ceiling in her living room--and mere feet from her eleven-year-old son. The terrified Jenna had had enough. She contacts Abraham Rollins, a psychology professor at the local college who also dabbles in the paranormal. In fact, he supervises a group of students who have formed a paranormal investigative team. It doesn't take long for Abe to realize what's going on. When Gary died, a portal opened to the "other side." When he didn't cross over, the portal stayed open and other, more sinister beings took up residence in Jenna's house...and they aren't about to leave.
It works, or at least for a while. But then things start happening again. The phone is discovered in the microwave, the silverware drawer now holds eight neatly arranged juice glasses, and the missing silverware tray is found on top of the kitchen cupboard. Even more scarey are the disembodied footsteps that traverse the upstairs hallway and always end in the slamming of a door. Strangest of all, though, are the roses Gary gave Jenna a week before the accident. They were dead when he left for work that last morning. She meant to throw them away. When the police came to notify her of his death, though, the roses were very much alive. Six weeks later, they had not even wilted.
Next came the "entity." The dense black mist that hovered near the ceiling in her living room--and mere feet from her eleven-year-old son. The terrified Jenna had had enough. She contacts Abraham Rollins, a psychology professor at the local college who also dabbles in the paranormal. In fact, he supervises a group of students who have formed a paranormal investigative team. It doesn't take long for Abe to realize what's going on. When Gary died, a portal opened to the "other side." When he didn't cross over, the portal stayed open and other, more sinister beings took up residence in Jenna's house...and they aren't about to leave.