Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Work in progress:


My next books are Triangulation and Stinger.

Books 4 and 5 in The Breaker series.


Set in the year 2001, the story continues from Mall Maze.



Themes:


Crime, detective, hardboiled, heist, murder, narcissism, narcissistic abuse, neo-noir, psychopath, sociopath, thriller, vigilante.

 

A percentage from book sales is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.


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The Breaker is an on-going series.


I’m outlining other stand-alone thriller novels.

Several coffee table books on my photography and my wife’s artwork.

A humorous book, based on the antics of our crazy pet Ragdoll cat, entitled: It’s That F****** Cat Again!



Here’s a GIF I made of our cat, settling down for another of his daily naps:

On this day in music history:

The Grand Illusion by Styx (1977)
Moving Through Worlds by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2020)


The Grand Illusion
Album by Styx,
released July 7, 1977.
Track list: The Grand Illusion; Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man); Superstars; Come Sail Away; Miss America; Man in the Wilderness; Castle Walls; The Grand Finale.


Moving Through Worlds
Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,
released July 7, 2020.
Track list: Calling County Clare; Bushfire Moon; Prayer For Rain; All That Is Left; Aqua 1; Prelude In E Minor (Chopin, #4); Desert Of Crystal; Tolling Of The Fire Bell; Aqua 2; Passing Of Midnight; Moving Through Worlds; For The Roses (Solo Piano); Song For Louise; Twilight Moment.

On this day in movie history - The Last Run (1971):


The Last Run

directed by Richard Fleischer,
written by Alan Sharp,
was released in the United States on July 7, 1971.
Music by Jerry Goldsmith.


Cast:

George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst, Aldo Sambrell, Antonio Tarruella, Robert Coleby, Pat Zurica, Rocky Taylor, Robert Rietty.

On this day in movie history - Mirage (1965):


Mirage

directed by Edward Dmytryk,
written by Peter Stone,
based on the novel Fallen Angel by Walter Ericson,
was released in the United States on July 7, 1965.
Music by Quincy Jones.


Cast:

Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Weston, Leif Erickson, Walter Abel, George Kennedy, Robert H. Harris, Anne Seymour, House B. Jameson, Hari Rhodes, Syl Lamont, Eileen Baral, Neil Fitzgerald, Franklin Cover.

On this day in movie history - The Killers (1964 movie & book):


The Killers

directed by Don Siegel,
written by Gene L. Coon,
based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway,
was released in the United States on July 7, 1964.
Music by John Williams.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Clu Gulager, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, Claude Akins, Norman Fell, Virginia Christine, Don Haggerty, Robert Phillips, Kathleen O'Malley, Ted Jacques, Irvin Mosley, Jimmy Joyce, Burt Mustin.

Recommended reading:



The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway


by Ernest Hemingway.


Published by Scribner.

Published 1998.

ASIN: 0684843323

ISBN-10: 9780684843322

ISBN-13: 978-0684843322


Description:


In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway’s most beloved classics such as The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Hills Like White Elephants, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection, totaling in sixty stories. This collection demonstrates Hemingway’s ability to write beautiful prose for each distinct story, with plots that range from experiences of World War II to beautifully touching moments between a father and son. For Hemingway fans, The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.

On this day in television history - Detective’s Wife (1950):


Detective’s Wife

Directed by Franklin Schaffner.
Written by Milton “Mort” Lewis.
Released July 7, 1950.
Cast: Lynn Bari, Donald Curtis.

On this day in movie history - The Second Woman (1950):


The Second Woman

directed by James V. Kern,
written by Mort Briskin and Robert Smith,
was released in the United States on July 7, 1950.
Music by Joseph Nussbaum.

Cast:

Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates, Morris Carnovsky, Henry O'Neill, Jean Rogers, Raymond Largay, Shirley Ballard, Vici Raaf, Jason Robards, Sr., Steven Geray, Jimmie Dodd, Smokey Whitfield, Cliff Clark.