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  Buy Serpents in the Sand The first grains of “Serpents in the Sand” began to sift through my mind back in April 2023. I had just finished my debut novel, “Demons Within,” and I was riding the creative high that comes with watching an idea blossom into a full-fledged story. It was the kind of high you wish you could bottle up and save for a rainy day. But life, with its uncanny knack for pulling the rug out from under you, had other plans. I poured myself into “Serpents in the Sand,” writing 300 pages in a feverish burst of inspiration. The story—with its sun-scorched island, writhing sands, and a protagonist named Caleb who wakes up with nothing but questions—felt alive in a way that made every word exhilarating. The island wasn’t just a setting; it was a character, pulsing with secrets and danger, waiting to be unraveled. And then, the storm hit. Not the one I was writing about, coiling on Caleb’s horizon, but the one in my own life. A brutal relapse with alcohol came crashing d...

  Buy The Dish Pit If you’ve ever worked in a dish pit, you already know it’s not just a job—it’s a purgatory. A fluorescent-lit, grease-slicked purgatory where the smell of industrial soap clings to your skin like a desperate ex and the soundtrack is an unholy symphony of clattering plates and distant shouting. But for me, the dish pit wasn’t just a grimy corner of the restaurant world; it was the birthplace of my third novel, “The Dish Pit.” This story began taking shape while I was still wrist-deep in the suds myself. Well, not literally—I was in rehab at St. Christopher’s Inn, writing feverishly in my composition notebook every chance I got. The inspiration struck thanks to two men working the dish pit in the cafeteria there. To say these two drove each other crazy is like saying the Titanic had a minor buoyancy issue. They didn’t just clash; they collided, combusted, and ricocheted off each other like human ping-pong balls of chaos and frustration. I remember watching them o...

  Buy Cocaine Cola  The first time I held a composition notebook in my hands at rehab, I felt like a soldier clutching a sword in a battle I wasn’t sure I could win. Recovery—from alcoholism, from myself—was not the hero’s journey I had romanticized in my more delusional moments. It was more like crawling through a swamp with a broken compass. And yet, somehow, amid the sweat-soaked nightmares and the relentless peeling back of layers I had spent years constructing, I found the spark to create. Let me start at the beginning—or rather, one of the beginnings. You see, alcoholism has a funny way of offering you new beginnings all the time, but they’re never the kind you want. I had just hit one of those new beginnings, a rock bottom that made me look at myself and think, “This can’t be it. This cannot be how the story ends.” The days leading up to rehab are a blur, like a badly edited montage of shame, regret, and staggering attempts at normalcy. But once I walked through those ...

  Buy Now Demons Within is a fictional story that hits on the true madness of alcoholism and addiction. Written through the lens of a crime thriller, the storyline takes place in the Capitol region of New York State and features a series of twists and turns. The protagonist, Bill Dillard, is a retired homicide detective who has struggled with alcoholism and addiction for the past two decades. His drinking destroyed his marriage, strained his relationships, and left him alone in the world. Yet after his ex-wife is found brutally murdered in a cabin in upstate New York, Bill finds himself thrust into the investigation, determined to uncover the truth. As the plot ramps up, Bill’s disease brings him to the depths of despair, including his ultimate rock bottom, before finding the strength to pull himself up in order to solve the crime. This riveting, unputdownable, engrossing page-turner is available now in Hardcover, Paperback, and eBook - exclusively on Amazon.  Now