Self-Published

Blame It On Socrates (2025)

This is the story of Patrick Dolan, a middle-aged college professor
who teaches philosophy at a small mid-western college who cannot seem
to shake his past no matter how hard he tries. Helping the good
professor put his past behind him is the campus jack-of-all-trades,
Hap Williams, Sarah Goldstein, a fellow student radical who is on her
death bed, and a neurotic dog called Socrates (the other Socrates) who
likes to steal and bury his mail. Follow him at Simpson College for a
semester where a mishap over a broken library copier, a letter from a
dead friend, a student protest inspired by an ancient Greek
philosopher and a borrowed shovel unleashes a series of events related
to his attempt to make sense of it all.

Late Night with “Dick” (2026)

This is the story of Ryan Murphy, a first-year law student at Georgetown University who stumbles into President Richard Milhous Nixon on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the throes of an early morning visit. This chance meeting would later lead to a series of clandestine rendezvous between these two over a range of topics and happenings related their lives. Follow this pair as they discuss the merits of service to one’s country, law school, and the trials and tribulations of being a young person making their way in the late 1960s in America. All told, the law student turned sleuth must navigate trying to keep his distance as the Watergate scandal unfolds, the CIA tries to recruit him, and he tries to finish his law degree.

The Pencil (2027)

This historical fiction novel explores the banality of the Nazi concentration camp called Auschwitz-Birkenau through the eyes of two men. The first is a U.S. service member who helped liberate the camp in the spring of 1945 and the other a former prisoner who detailed the horror through a collection of letters left behind in a secret hiding place. This novel serves to provide novice Holocaust readers a first-hand account to the origins, inner-workings, and finality that was Auschwitz and its surrounding camps. All told, over one million European Jews perished in the largest and deadliest of the six dedicated extermination camps.  Survivors include over 7,000 Jewish prisoners who were very ill and or close to death. These prisoners along with their American and Russian liberators would spend decades trying to put what they experienced and saw in the concentration camps to rest. For U.S. Army Sergeant Stanislaus Kowaleski this effort to put this horrific event behind him would require him to walk in the shoes (through letters) of a Jewish prisoner one step at a time and one day at a time.