Pickle's Progress
A Novel

The opening scene is an attention grabber. Manhattan based architects Karen and Stan are returning home from a party in the early hours of the morning, they’ve drunk too much (as is their habit) and they’re bickering (as is also their habit). As they cross the George Washington Bridge their attentio......more

The book that went phhht. One likes to give a debut novelist every chance and, to be fair, this starts promisingly enough. Manhattan power couple, Stan and Karen, are driving back across the George Washington Bridge late one night when they narrowly miss crashing into a wailing young woman in the roa......more

Out April 9th! Preorder at Amazon here! Thank you to Marcia Butler for being so sweet many months ago and offering me an opportunity to review this book! And also for mailing me her autograph! I always love to connect with new authors, and while Marcia is not new to the art scene, this is her debut n......more

I find it intriguing when there is such disparity in a book's ratings, and given that this is a debut endeavor, am prone to cut slack on content and style. However, I should have paid more attention to the nay-sayers and left it alone. The strong beginning indicates the author has good ideas, but th......more

Oh New York. What a sh*tty city to live in, what a great setting for a story. It’s inexplicable, really, how this noisy obscenely expensive overcommercialized overrated place creates such compelling tales, expect to blame it on the extreme conditions that being in NY presents. But actually I didn’t......more