The Siren of Good Intentions is my first novel.  I’ve been writing it since 2007 when I left for Lesotho to become the Peace Corps Country Director.  It is the book I needed to get out of my head and heart and into the world so that I might concentrate on writing as my full-time occupation. I had to prove that I could finish this as a project and a product.  And, as many of you will appreciate, I needed to tell this story of a most extraordinary time in my life. I hope I’ve made that time and place come to life for my readers.

I have begun work on my second novel and expect it to be completed in 12 months, not 12 years.  It is an entirely different novel from “The Siren of Good Intentions” in that it takes place in the US in present time and focuses on modern adult relationships.  It explores the drivers of action, willful, coerced or subconscious, and the building blocks of character. It addresses among other questions: why do good people do bad things? 

This next novel also extends a theme from “The Siren”.  Decisions often have unintended and unforeseeable consequences for all of us.  Thankfully most of those consequences are benign.  But when they are not, lives can fall apart in all manner of ways.  And lives can, almost as often, be rebuilt.  How and why we make decisions with too much or too little information, and how those decisions change lives, are among the topics I’ll be exploring in “The Adulterer’s Supper Club”.