As we approach the end to another year, I find myself doing so with mixed emotions. It seems like yesterday when we were (happily) drawing closed the curtains to 2020. "Good riddance!" seemed to be the collective feeling at the time in dumping what had without argument been one of the worst years in recent memory into the dust bin of history as we looked with bated optimism to 2021. Much to our despair, the dark doldrums of 2020 followed us into the new year where we can stil

Sounds lend a strong hand in shaping the plots, characters and the circumstances that drive both in my stories. They are, in some cases, as vital to the creative inspirations that move my typing fingers along the keyboard as the images conjured up from the innards of my brain. In the case of “The Crossing Point,” two songs were instrumental in painting the portraits of two very different sets of characters: Gotham and Ava Delacroux, and Jacob and Wray. Now, I did not consciou