Stephen Metcalfe

Is it an improvement?  I think a little bit.  I’d still like to see some breaks in the frame itself.  It would suggest broken, not yet repaired, relationships.  Thoughts welcome.  By the way, the novel has gotten some good reviews on Amazon.  I’ve posted some of the below.  I’m grateful for them – thank you!…

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Written for Racquet Magazine – NYC – 1981 It was situated on a bluff that overlooked a lake surrounded by small cottages. It was quiet there, often deserted. The pine trees, Maine pine trees, as tall and proud as redwoods, formed a windscreen all around it and gave it a natural backdrop of green. It…

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  When he was sixteen years old, my son, along with the boys and girls on his high school swim team, did the Sharkfest Swim.  Alcatraz to the wharves of San Francisco, one and half miles in cold, turbulent, shark infested water.  I still shiver and quake at the thought.  Six months later, he and…

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Fact.  Over four million new books were published in 2022.  They were self-published, commercially published and hybrid published.  What’s that you ask?  Hybrid publishing is where an author pays a publishing company a set amount of money to publish their book. In exchange for the fees they pay, authors get higher royalties than they would with a traditional publishing…

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A review on Amazon of my new novel, Attachment Patterns, starts like this – “This book is all that it says it is, well-written, emotionally charged, and a really good read” – and ends like this – “However, the cover is an absolute insult. My suggestion to the author would be to do your book…

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                             A mistake was made.  Yes.  The lovely wife had errands to run before supper and left the youngsters at home alone.   Normally the “youngsters” are to be trusted.  They play, they sleep, they investigate.   This day was different.  They were in the kitchen. Dude, what is that up there on the counter? I do…

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