About

It’s about time to revise what I am “about” since that has changed dramatically since LISTENER IN THE SNOW came out this summer.

I’ve changed from being a writer who puts words on pages, 9 to Noon, five days a week, to that man plus one who at the direction of his Finn’s Way Books publicist, business manager, and designer pursues publicity ops, tracking sales, and refining stationary, cards, notes and the like.

Well, the good old days look just like that: good and long gone. Complications set in.

Still I have OBSERVATION HILL coming out next year, and I am working on a new novel (working title: Finn’s Way) which tells what is mostly a Minnesota story in a California setting.

I describe OBSERVATION HILL on my web page as follows:

Labor tension though the early 20th century in Duluth, Minnesota was high, fueled by influx of workers from egalitarian Scandinavia. The workers won the post World War II fight. As the century moved on though conditions changed.
Class struggle in Observation Hill erupts inside police detective, Paul Tuomi, as he investigates the deaths of an heiress from the patrician East End and another underclass teen in the laboring West End. When police resources shift to the east, leaving a cloud of suspicion on a young man’s passing, Paul double his effort to clear doubt. Out east,  pressure from the press and the powerful to arrest the black sheep of the heiress’ family push Paul to disregard eye-witness fact and bring to heel his West End sensibilities or endanger not only his job but his marriage and his lover as well.

The growing number of my readers, the prospects of the Sixteen-Stop Minnesota Book Tour (September), and the West Coast Launch of LISTENER are keeping me in the game. Stay tuned.