Novel Excerpt

A novel excerpt — The war begins the way all wars do, not with the actual combat but with a press release buried on page four of the business section of the newspaper. Sal Terranova doesn’t see it, since he never ventures beyond the sports pages; fortunately, Camden Templeton, his cousin and co-owner with…

Most people may have told you that the worst feeling in the world was heartache; or possibly grief, or sorrow, or a stubbed toe. Not me. I would have told you that the absolute worst feeling was waking up in the morning and feeling tired. Stubbed toes aside, most of…

The first chapter of a novel I started writing around a decade ago, which I now intend to finish. — By the rolling dry stone wall, which slalomed unevenly through the wheat crops, there was a little dip in the grass where rain would gather. There, as my feet felt the bitter snap of the water’s cold, I stood and searched for a path through the bush ahead. We were…

An excerpt from the upcoming novel Killshot — Senator Alanasian was born into an impoverished family in Armenia and blossomed after his parents relocated everyone to California. After college, he interned on Capitol Hill, stayed close to the Bay Area’s political scene, and secured government funding to build numerous businesses that were never profitable. …

A novel excerpt — Coffee shops are the same the world over, Max thinks as he gazes around the interior of the unimaginatively-named Benny’s Beans. Whether in Brooklyn or Berlin, Fresno or Fort Worth, the smell of the coffee permeates, students act like they’re studying, and small cliques discuss their world, from politics to…