Thanks for your interest in my book!

Writing it has been a journey, to say the least.

Chronologically thinking, I was about 10 the first time I had the notion of being a writer. Like most writers, I was a voracious reader.

I have been fortunate, and am very grateful, to have earned a living as a commercial writer – freelance writing, journalism, media writing, public relations writing, speech writing, marketing writing, ghost writing. Each style and genre are forms of storytelling.

I think I wrote the long-form poem – a chapter in this book, Free of Ice, around 1982 when I was in a writing class in college.

I wrote some of the stories (chapters) at various times in the 1990s and early 2000s. I wasn’t concerned with how I might pull it together as a book when I would put “pen to paper,” so to speak, and wrote the chapters. I was just writing short stories that were entertaining to myself. And I hoped, now hope, they might be entertaining to others. Five or 6 of the chapters were written in the final 18 months of pre-production on the book, and getting the full manuscript ready for editing.

Back to the subject of storytelling, and with this book’s publishing toward the tail end of 2025, we have and are fully embracing AI into our lives and work. I have no idea how all this plays out in the coming years – other than it will, somehow, impact all if not most of our lives.

I would like to suggest that AI won’t kill storytelling, as long as we remain predominantly human. As humans, storytelling, not just factually-based information, will remain central to our human-ness. And to our souls. That’s what cave art was. People yearn for stories, and we keep creating storytellers. Thankfully!

I would like to thank my publisher in this project, Palmetto Publishing, and their entire team that was involved in producing and making the book available to purchase.

Stay tuned for the availability of an audio book version of In Between Drinks; Beaches, Bars and Other Stories. We are working on that and hope to have it available in early 2026.