I have just finished A Rebel Comes of Age, a young adult novel which will be released Dec 21, 2013. It's the sequel to A Battle for Tomorrow. In A Rebel Comes of Age, Ange is a year older (17), and she and four other homeless teenagers occupy an empty commercial building owned by Bank of America. As they slowly transform it into a teen homeless shelter, Ange goes into crisis mode when the other residents decide to use firearms to keep a police SWAT team from evicting them.

I was intrigued by a review of my first novel, The Battle for Tomorrow, that cautioned parents my book was a carefully crafted handbook on how to manipulate vulnerable teenagers into a "socialist " political agenda. The comment intrigued me so much that it inspired a sequel. In the second book in the series, Ange is a year older (17) and less susceptible to the efforts of older adults to manipulate her.

Most of my work is highly critical of the corporate-controlled political system and the the corporate controlled media and publishing industry that strictly censors information and viewpoints contrary to their financial interests. The only way to ensure I had total editorial freedom was to become an indie author.

Smashwords has enabled me to reach thousands of readers by offering a way to make my books available for under $5.00.

I like offering people a way of looking at the world, in which they can be confident, curious, and active participants in their communities - instead of fearful, passive consumers of corporate propaganda and an endless array of consumer products they neither want nor need.

William Faulkner, John LeCarre, Barbara Kingsolver, Flannery O'Connor, Henry George, Jim Garrison, Derrick Jensen, John Strachey, David Ray Griffin

Working together with other community activists. I'm a full time activist, as well as a journalist and author

I try to find an image that approximates the main character as I see them in my mind. My heroines are always strong women with distinctive personalities.