NIGHT TRAIN EXPRESS – CHAPTER ONE
Please enjoy a sample of my new novel NIGHT TRAIN EXPRESS You can find a complete copy on Amazon here ONE Late on a…
THE TWO CHRISTMAS EVE BABIES
It was Christmas Eve—early afternoon, at least, on the day before Christmas. Morton Memorial Hospital was busy, but the staff was in a collectively…
THE LUCK OF THE DRAW, AND THE NIGHT TRAIN EXPRESS
Recently a photograph slipped from the dusty dust jacket of a book that I hadn’t opened in years. It was a sepia-toned shot of…
PERSEVERANCE, PERSISTENCE AND THE PWP 3850
It’s always nice to rediscover an old friend, human or otherwise. One of my best non-human friends back in the largely forgettable decade of…
BLUE ROUTE Author Ed McGinnis Publishes Third Novel
With all of the emphasis on social media these days many writers, musicians and artists—as well as many small businesses and nonprofit organizations—lose sight…
CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND THE CHATEAU MARMONT
Sometimes writers worry that we’re losing our creative mojo, abandoned by our best friend: the power of imagination. It all starts with dreams…or doesn’t….
NIGHT TRAIN EXPRESS
Spring, 1989. Jack Harrington—actor, Vietnam veteran, business associate of Los Angeles underworld figures–finds himself in a precarious position: at least two people are trying…
STORY TIME, AND THE GHOST OF JOHANN BRILL
When I was small I used to go for walks with my father. My favorite destination was the old J.G. Brill Company factory adjacent…
FRIENDLY GHOSTS, AND THE EDGE OF FOREVER
While looking through some old boxes in a storage locker recently I found a short story I wrote when I was nineteen: “Friendly Ghosts,…
SATAN’S LAGOON
“Satan’s Lagoon” was the prologue that opened earlier versions of WILDWOOD. The novel ultimately took another direction, but a detour back to The Lagoon…