Fascinating Books I'm Working on Now

Nonfiction

Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer’s Resistance (Including Writer’s Block, Procrastination, Paralysis, Perfectionism, Postponing, Distractions, Self-Sabotage, Excessive Criticism, Overscheduling and Endlessly Delaying Your Writing) will be published by Tarcher/Penguin Summer 2012.

Fiction
I've completed two science fiction novels and am actively seeking an agent while drafting the next book in the series.

Would you risk your family to save the life of an enemy solider?
Could you stand by and watch someone die,
knowing he would be killed because he wanted to stop being a solider?

This is the central question facing Peregrine Bird in my science fiction novel, The Essential Path.

Peregrine Bird is one of the select people left on the planet Path still guarding the secrets of distilling Essence -- alcohol that is both an aphrodisiac and the base of life-saving drugs. Peregrine is already torn between trying to protect her daughter and honoring a promise she made to her mother before she disappeared. A trespassing enemy soldier forces Peregrine to make another untenable choice: If she follows her compassionate impulse to help this soldier desert, she puts her family and neighbors at risk.

When Peregrine chooses compassion, the consequences are even more disastrous than she anticipated. The local Resistance unit turns against her, her daughter is captured by the military’s elite torture squad, and the tenuous ties to her remaining family are snapped. Equally unexpected are the new alliances Peregrine forms.

The relationship between Peregrine and the man she saved grows more complex and more passionate in the second book in the series, Freedom Path. Peregrine will be forced to watch this man die or reveal the Blood Secret that creates Essence, betray her family and risk the destruction of all she knows and loves.

Read an excerpt of The Essential Path.