We are launching Murano Family Saga
The author and the artist introduce Pals Forever to Briar Chapel Community The time to present our work has come. Kathy Flood designed the cover. She used her family members as models. I used my life experiences in the story. We are both neighbors. Talking about a community project! We will welcome all of you […]
Gösta Iwasiuk, M.D. a friend and a Renaissance Man
We had been born a few months apart, a few hundred kilometers from each other. We both have Slavic surnames. Both became surgeons. We had immigrated to the United States, and lived almost all our professional lives in Ventura County, just a few miles from each other. We even worked all this time in the […]
Pals Forever, First Book in Trilogy of Murano Family Saga
Best Father’s Day present. Dr. Jack Murano’s sole wish was to have a happy family. But is it possible when his wife and children know nothing about the hidden past—about his father being in prison for murder? Jack Murano is forced to share his difficult history when his friend sues him for malpractice, having been […]
The First Book in the Muranos Trilogy Saga.
Start your journey this Father’s Day. This was my post from January this year. https://bit.ly/3MBgnjM Here is the follow-up. And the progress report. My writing in 2023 is taking shape. You may or may not know that I took all my already published books off the market. The Pandemics helped me reassess, redo and refine […]
Why I listed “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese as the First in My “Books I love” Series.
This book was recommended to me by a friend, also a cardiac surgeon. He found out that they, with the author, were trained by the same surgical superstar, Dr. Thomas Starzl. In surgery, the provenance means a lot. It took me a few years to get to the book. At first, I didn’t really like […]
Drama in the Operating Theater now Available in Paperback
“There’s nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.”― E.A. Bucchianeri There comes a next mini-step in publishing the Murano family saga. The paperback is available on Amazon. Here’s the link to the paperback. And here –– to the e-book. Enjoy. Next is the first novel in the series […]
What’s New for Me in 2023?
These were my thoughts entering 2022: https://bit.ly/3Q50YtD My optimism was clearly justified. There was one significant personal loss in our family. But also 2022 brought exciting changes to my writing. Let me share these with you. I felt my stories were not ready for prime time. And that I could do better. So, I took […]
If You Can’t Find Your Genre, Create One.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Oh, really? So when I say: Nicole bring me my slippers and fetch my nightcap,” is that prose? PHILOSOPHY MASTER: Most clearly.MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Well, what do you know about that! These forty years now I’ve been speaking in prose without knowing it!—Molière, The Bourgeois Gentleman, 1670 In the previous post, I wrote about […]
How to Find Readers for Your Story.
You have to know who your readers are, they say. Then you have to find out how to get to them, they say. Have a picture of your ideal target in your mind, and write for that person. Then write to your reader’s Avatar. It doesn’t work this way for me. I have a story […]
