Books I’ve Written and Am Writing Part 2
I started reading books at an early age. I began by reading Batman and Robin comic books. My mother was really concerned about my reading them. So she went into the principal’s office in my school and asked him how she could make me stop reading the comics. “He should be reading books,” she said. “Not comics.” “Relax,” the principle told her. “When he’s ready to read books, then he’ll start reading them. “ The principle was right. After awhile, I began reading books, including Batman and Robin and Dennis the Menace.
Batman and Robin
In the early 1960s, I began writing fantasy stories.
Dennis the Menace
When I was seventeen, I began writing short stories and submitting them for publication. They were mostly fantasy stories, such as Who Speaks of Conquest. The story was about a Terran ambassador whose space ship lands on a star port on an alien planet. The ambassador intends that he will make the occupants of the planet join their federation of planets. An alien approached them and said, “Welcome to the Federation of Free Stars. Follow the rules and everything will be okay.” Later on, I began writing short fantasy novels.
Space Ship Landing
Later, I wrote a Civil War short story, called New Braintree, which takes place in September of 1864. It’s from the Confederate point of view. The main character, who is the narrator, never mentions his name.
Unfortunately, I stopped writing because a friend of mine told me that I couldn’t write effectively if I hadn’t experienced life beforehand. Unfortunately, I believed him, stopped writing, and started “experiencing life”.
Around 1920, I felt a compunction to start writing again. my wife, Lisa, thought it was a good idea and was very supportive of me doing it. So I came up with an idea of creating a four-book fantasy series. The first book was called Charm Wars. The first three books have been released in both paperback and and e-book formats. The fourth book in the series is being edited.
Charm Wars
Right now, I’m finishing work on my latest book, The Vatican List. It’s about a young Jewish man, Paul Jefferson, who is vacationing in Rome. His father is an extremely devout Jew living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Paul is given a list of Nazi war criminals by mistake instead of to Nazi war criminal Karl Reichter. Paul sees his father’s name on the list.
Karl and his two fellow Nazis want the list back.
Mossad agent Dahlia Sharett and her fellow Mossad agents want to get the Vatican List, too. But they want to take it back to Israel. Unfortunately for Dahlia, her fellow agents are killed in line of duty.
Paul teams up with Dahlia to get the list back, but at a heavy cost.
The story also shows how Karl Reichter turned from being a good Christian man to becoming a Nazi.