Waiting at the Shore is a biography of the Spanish artist Luis Quintanilla (1893-1978). Please go to www.lqart.org for a... More > summary of the important events in his life as well as for numerous reproductions of his works of art. The book has 27 black and white photographs and illustrations as well as a full index. (Click on the preview button to see the index.) < Less

Here's a 2012 calendar featuring examples of the work of the Spanish artist, Luis Quintanilla.

Life is good. And Michael Howard believes he has been uniquely chosen by fate for there is a singular brightness about the... More > world he uniquely enjoys. All he has to do is continue choosing correctly. Part anti-war novel, part love story, part coming of age adventure, this novel is yet another exploration of the "American dream." < Less

Positive and negative, negative and positive, the two competing forces within Carlton Phillips. This is a novel about how he... More > is violently rocked by these forces. And finally surmounts them. < Less

"Hell is other people," a character in Sartre's No Exit tells us. And for the employees of the Red and Black Fire Equipment... More > Company this is mostly true. Written as a series of interior monologues (with a touch of omniscient commentary) The Industrial Park enters into the inner lives of these conflicted and conflicting souls. A tragedy? A comedy? You as the reader would have to decide. < Less

This novel attempts to examine the nature of innocence and of living fully without it. Dereck Kramer, recently released from... More > prison, is constantly tortured by his past. And haunted by the past, pursued by it, driven on by the unending furies of guilt and shame and disgrace he struggles to begin again, to find a new way. Can there be a new beginning or any true redemption for those who have irrevocably "lost their innocence?" < Less

The question this novel explores is: can daily American economic life, which colors the whole of the American experience,... More > support a creative youth just starting out? Or is there something basically antithetical about the corporate world to creative thought and activity? < Less

Most novelists consider the daily routine of a menial job in an office to be too dull and uninteresting to merit the... More > treatment of a full length novel. How can such an unchanging dull monotony hold the reader's attention, they may ask? Though the clashes of the titans at the top have been fully explored often enough.
The daily experience, though, of being at work in an office is one of the most common experiences of everyday life. And for that reason merits our attention. What's more, these basic realities should be more openly dealt with. This is a novel about the simple daily experience of being on the job. Of going to work everyday. A drama which is large enough on its own. < Less

If travel is "broadening" then John Sawyer's adventures in the Land of the Dacks, an ancient third world country, are quite... More > transformative. And he becomes a new man. This is also a novel of ideas < Less

Positive and negative, negative and positive, the two competing forces within Carlton Phillips. This is a novel about how he... More > is violently rocked by these forces. And finally surmounts them. < Less