A psychic friend once told me, "I see success for you but late in life." Twenty plus years ago that didn't seem very encouraging, but now, in my early (very early) sixties, I think any measure of success I experience would qualify as "late in life."


Luckily, Dan Janik, Publisher of Savant Books and Publications, saw promise in my pitch for HELLO, NORMA JEAN: a woman has a near-death experience, and her guide back to life is Marilyn Monroe. I'm sure I made it through the slush pile in Dan's e...
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A French native, Robin Ymer, (Claude Aguilera's pen name for her mythical children's fantasy, MYTHICAL VOYAGE: THE TALE OF THE WHITE PONCA), spent her formative years in North Africa and France. Early in life, she manifested an interest in art. A dreamer and mediocre student in high school, she eventually boarded at the conservative "Maison de la Legion d'Honneur" in Saint Denis. There, Robin spent her free time drawing, and, after a summer stay in Sidmouth, England, she decided to study lang...
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After the release by Savant Books of my Hawaiian thriller, Kanaka Blues, with its backdrop of Hawaiian sovereignty, I have gone back to my roots.  Manifest Intent, my second Savant work, is set in the world of lawyers and law firms, which has been my world for over twenty-seven years.  John Grisham and Scott Turow may have invented the legal thriller genre, or at least popularized it wildly, but the legal world, with its own rules and language, is a natural for mysteries.  I hop...
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