Fascinating Books I'm Working on Now

Nonfiction
I'm finalizing a proposal for my next nonfiction book, tentatively titled Write Anyway and will send the proposal to agents soon.

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.

Write Anyway
Introduction
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“Writer's Digest has said that 24 million people in the United States describe themselves as creative writers. Less than 5 percent of these writers have ever been published.”

The Making of a Bestseller by Brian Hill and Dee Power

There’s a reason the number of writers’ conferences and workshops and books and blogs addressed to writers continues to grow every year: people feel compelled to write.

In a recent article in the Chicago Tribune, Derek Gordon, vice president for marketing at Technorati, the online search engine for blogs, reported there are more than 100 million blogs worldwide, but that most blogs are only marginally active, meaning the blogger only posts once a month. According to a survey commissioned by Jenkins Group, Inc., a Michigan publishing services firm, 81% of Americans believe they should write a book. And yet few do.

All writers experience resistance whether they write in journals, are working on a Ph.D. thesis, have been published for years, or are still looking for their first publishing credit. Creativity coach and author Rosanne Bane’s ground-breaking new book Write Anyway offers writers of all ages and experience levels a concrete action plan to help them move through resistance free of guilt, embarrassment and fear.

Write Anyway is for people who:

• Want to write, but can’t figure out where to start or what to say
• Edit their first page over and over and feel unable or unworthy to move on
• Keep their schedules so full they don’t have time to write
• Sit down to write and suddenly remember ten other things they have to do right now
• Procrastinate and postpone their dreams
• Delay or fail to meet deadlines
• Play it safe – avoiding the risk of being fully present and vulnerable on the page
• Give all their time to writing projects that neither challenge or excite them
• Sabotage their own efforts with lost files, accidents or missed appointments

Read Chapter 1 of Write Anyway.

Table of Contents of Write Anyway

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Show Up? What’s Wrong with Me?
Chapter 4: What You’re Showing Up For
Chapter 5: Why Is It So Hard to Show Up Revisited
Chapter 6 When to Show Up
Chapter 7 Why It Matters That You Show Up
Chapter 8 Where to Show Up
Chapter 9 How to Show Up
Chapter 10 How to Keep Showing Up