Stephen Metcalfe

originally written around 2010 – I was reminded of it because I saw a bull mastiff when I was walking my daughter’s dog today My lovely wife is now walking dogs with me.   We rise.  We get the chip off the old block son and the beautiful daughter off to school which is like dragging…

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                               Well, here it is.  Yes.  Cover #3 newly edited by the publishers for my novel Attachment Patterns.  It should be noted that cover #1 was described in an otherwise positive review as “the worst book cover in the history of mankind”.  The publishers took this to heart and immediately insisted on some changes —…

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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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