I hope to have my next book out by mid-June. It's a non-horror anthology, (except for one story), complete with 16 stories, some of them award-winning. They vary from fiction to nonfiction, fantasy to supernatural, from sad to humorous. Here are some descriptive blurbs:

• To save himself, a writer must intrigue Death with a story
• Saint Michael’s reunion conjures up dubious memories
• Three men escape an assisted living facility hoping to fulfill their destinies
• With a price on his head, mobster Lee Vaughn orders his last meal
• Maggie Addison pays dearly for her former husband’s abuse
• Suffering from PTSD, Edward Wilson returns to Pearl Harbor
• Chris Graham escapes death possessing healing powers he cannot control

Today was a real treat. The writers club (High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club or HDCWC) Mike and I belong to hosted New York Times Best Selling Author, Jonathan Maberry as its guest speaker.  What a wonderful, inspiring man. I think he lit a fire under all of us writers to get cracking and write, write, write. Jonathan Maberry is a success story. He makes a good living as a successful author and doesn't need the stipend our club paid or the money club members spent buying his books. Because of this, all of the money he made today he will donate to a charity that is providing for Ukranian children whose lives have been disrupted and devastated by the war.