Alice's residence: The Apostolic Palace behind the Basilica of St. Peter's church in Vatican City ** This is a spoiler-free post. ** Nuns take three vows -- poverty, chastity, and obedience. The vow of poverty is supposed to free a nun from being fascinated by material things so that she may be [...]
Alice Fisher/Sister Jacobine has become one of my favorite characters to write/spend time with. In 2020, a writer friend of mine put out a call for submissions for an anthology he was putting together titled Nuns with Guns. That idea immediately intrigued me, and I started thinking about reasons a nun would pick up [...]
Happy Tuesday! With the release of The Narrow Gate, A Nun With A Gun Story #6, today, that brings to an end the series of six short stories and begins the next step in the Alice Fisher saga: full length novels. The one thing I’ve heard from almost every one of you, aside from [...]
Happy Monday! Book Two in the Thomas Billings thriller series is underway! The First Daughter, Grace Worthington is traveling with her mother to go and meet Queen Elizabeth in Buckingham Palace. Thomas has become number one on the Establishment’s hit-list. Everywhere he goes, he has to watch over his shoulder. When Thomas discovers an Establishment [...]
Happy Tuesday! Den of Lions, the fifth book in A Nun With A Gun, is released today. Alice Fisher has quickly become my favorite character to write and, in fact, one of my favorite scenes is in this book. I won’t spoil it for you. Suffice to say, it’s a very emotional scene for [...]
Happy Friday! I want to thank everyone who’s emailed me in the past couple of weeks, telling me how much they’ve enjoyed Feet of Clay and A Port in the Storm, the first two stories in the Nun With A Gun series. I am having a blast “spending time” with Alice and I’m thrilled [...]
Happy Sunday! I hope you’re having a great long weekend and staying safe and healthy. With the launch of Feet of Clay and A Port in the Storm, the first two stories in the Nun With A Gun series, just less than a week past, I wanted to reach out and thank those of [...]
I am a big fan of the television show, The West Wing. The writing is superb, as is the acting. When I was plotting out the Sister Jacobine stories, one scene from The West Wing lingered in my mind. There wasn’t much to the scene, really. Former Press Secretary, now Chief of Staff CJ Cregg, [...]
