humorous novels

In Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees, Silvia unites her family, and in doing so, she learns that happiness isn’t possible without peace, and that internal peace isn’t possible without having peace in one’s outer world.

“Happiness…come(s)…as a result of learning” Aristotle Paradoxically, the dawn of the information age with all of its technological advances has contributed to the new dark age in which we live. It’s easy to become

Technology and its impact on people isn’t a theme of my first novel, Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees, as the protagonist, Silvia is a Luddite who prefers “vinyl records to CD’s, print books to e-books, and paintbrushes

Protagonists in both of my novels are driven by their desires to find happiness. In Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees, Silvia is motivated to unite her family by her desire for peace.  She wants to make peace within her family and to save

Finding happiness is a theme that runs throughout my novels and short stories. When characters search for happiness, they make important realizations about life and how to live it.  In Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees,  Silvia learns

As indie authors, it’s much too easy to get caught up in our sales rankings, especially on a site such as Amazon in which an author can have a ranking in multiple categories. However, it’s vital for us to stay cognizant of the more

A solid marketing strategy is essential for helping indie authors to accomplish their goals effectively and efficiently. I divided my business or marketing plan in three parts: pre-publication, publication and post-publication. The first thing

Cosmo and Silvia visit their younger brother Vince in Berkeley, where he attends college. Named after the 18th Century bishop and philosopher, George Berkeley, this university town has long been a major center of social change and civic unrest.

Silvia and Cosmo visit one of Silvia’s friends in the lovely coastal town of Santa Cruz. Situated about 90 miles south of San Francisco, Santa Cruz is home to both a major university and a boardwalk filled with restaurants, shops and an

The next series of blog posts will be in celebration of my forthcoming novel Discovery of an Eagle, which will be released on May 1st.  This is the second book in the Greco family trilogy and is told through 28 year-old Cosmo Greco’s point of