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I am a guitarist and composer as well as a writer. My sequel (separate from my coauthor Kevin Donohue's DeathCo, Mongoose Moon, & Waiting For Shiva) to Third Eye Patch is Bus Of Fools (Pub 8-18-13) Bus is intended to be general fiction, light humor & romance, while keeping a few characters from Patch.
The others (all written solo) are As I Was Telling You While Sleeping, a collection of short stories, a few of which make up a basis for Bus of Fools, Everything Is Beautiful In Its Own Way (a psycho-dramatic tragedy), and the Julian Plectrum series. set in medieval England:
If I Should Live So Long, Many Worlds Since I Left Home, and Oh What Will You Give Me; Fistfight at Judas Gulch is a Western humor fantasy which takes place in the Calif ...more

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In Remembrance -- Christine Mandell 1958-2023

The recent passing of my former esteemed violinist and musical partner (1985-88) Christine Mandell on the 4th of November 2023 requires some sort of public statement, and gracious acknowledgement from me... While for the past two months I have been getting the logistics and preparations done to re-release our 1987 cassette only album "Home Delivery- Elmtree Street" as a CD, I only learned of

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“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
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“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
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“To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.”
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“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
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Hello, Mark! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!

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