From 2023: A young athlete’s career is ruined by abuse from his coach and indifference from his family. Years later, he has an opportunity to testify against the coach in court…but does he have the courage to speak the truth?

FAULT is the story of Michael Attwood, a gifted teen tennis player now living in squalor and afraid to interact with other people. He hasn’t had any sort of close relationship since his coach abused him, and he frequently contemplates suicide. He lives in another city, under another name, and hasn’t seen his parents or his younger brother in ten years. He is broken and angry and blames himself for what his life has become.

When the coach is arrested for abusing another athlete, a district attorney requests that Michael give a deposition about the horrors of his childhood. Michael has to return to his hometown, deal with his family, and face the man who ruined his life. He fails. Too intimidated by the coach’s presence, he says that nothing happened. But when the case is thrown out on a technicality, Michael has to summon his courage and testify again.

From 2022: AJ and Joel are two boys with nothing in common: different backgrounds, different families, different races, and different interests. They're assigned to make a short film together, and in the course of figuring out what story to tell, they become friends. And then one night they're snowed in in a small town halfway between Seattle and Portland...

From 2023: Two high school friends in the late 1970s discover the world of theater from very different perspectives. Adam is set on being an actor, despite not being particularly talented; he just loves the stage. However, he is also making discoveries about his sexuality that might get in his way. Jeff is a nerdy, bookish boy who doesn't care much about theater until Adam convinces him he'll meet girls there. Once he's in the door, he discovers talent he didn't know he had.

These two boys try to figure out what their futures will hold, what their families expect of them, and how to get through a series of opening nights over the course of their last two years in high school. Their friendship is tested and almost breaks under the strain, but they pull each other through the hard times in a blue-collar town in Michigan.

From 2017: Four college buddies survive senior year at UCLA and spend the next fifteen years supporting each other through thick and thin, through marriages, career up and downs, movie stardom, failed books, and weird Broadway musicals.

From 2009: A semi-successful off-Broadway songwriter has a great life in New York except for one thing...he's still a virgin at thirty-three. However, when a handsome actor auditions for the lead in his new show, that might be about to change.

From 2011: Zachary Wylie lives in the Detroit suburbs and is reasonably content with his life Ð and yet certain that he needs to change it. Zack has worked at the same bookstore since he was in high school, has never had a serious relationship, and lives with his ailing mother. Sure, he goes out and parties, he has good friends (male and female, straight and gay), and he likes his job. He has a boyfriend heÕs been seeing for a few months who is very serious Ð far too serious for ZackÕs liking Ð but Zack canÕt decide whether to become more serious and keep the relationship going, or to dump the guy. But Zack still canÕt decide what he wants to do. Is the bookstore enough for him, for now, for the rest of his life? Or should he go back to school and learn a new trade? Should he stay in Michigan or move? The answers to these questions will surprise him, and will surprise you as well.

From 2010: The Ultimate Triumph of the Brothers Olbermann is about three brothers who have been estranged for many years. Jack, the oldest, is a former Howard Stern-type DJ who lost his job for bad behavior on the air and is now trying to find his way back to work. Danny, the middle brother, is a baseball coach with a string of bad jobs and bad relationships who's running from a deep secret. And Aaron, the youngest, is scared and shy and alone, with only his online relationships for comfort. For the first time in nearly twenty years, these three brothers find themselves in the same city--and in need of the kind of friendship and support only a brother can provide.

From 2021: A singing competition goes off the rails more than once as the contestants fight to be the top singer-songwriter in America.

From 2012: Elliot and Cal are the two most unlikely companions ever. Elliot is a playwriting professor, stuffy, aloof, and immune to questions of sex and romance. Cal is an outgoing New Yorker, a director, used to having his way and uninterested in a long-term relationship. They're forced to work together, and then a sudden earthquake brings them closer still--with hilarious and unexpected consequences.

Matt Demetriou keeps striking out at love, so his big brother talks him into moving north and starting a whole new life . . . one that comes with a brand-new playlist.

After a decade in San Diego, Matt’s new life in Portland gets off to a good start. He lands at a new job, makes amazing friends, and buys a piano that fits in his tiny apartment. But finding true love is still his long-term goal. After all, without the perfect romantic partner, even the sweetest music falls flat.

Instead, he keeps meeting men who are crazy, controlling, or just plain weird. Then a mechanic shows up to fix Matt’s car—and while he sings off-key, he might just know the tune to open Matt’s heart.

From 2024: Rob Goncalves had a solid career as a pitcher for the Portland Lumberjacks. Now he's in the broadcast booth. He's got everything he ever wanted...until he decides to hire a nutritionist. Seth comes in and upends Rob's comfortable, closeted life. Now Rob is determined to come out to the people in his life, one by one, before making a public statement. Can he survive the reactions of his parents, his former teammates, and the TV station with his sanity intact? Most importantly...is Seth the person he's meant to spend the rest of his life with?

My latest publication, from 2026: After the death of his husband of thirty-three years, Andrew finds it difficult adjusting to life without Arthur. Gradually he beings his new life by purchasing a new condo. After surviving a bank robbery, though, Andrew realizes he needs to start living his new life--and that includes meeting new men. Will he find happiness with the cop who foiled the robbery? With the younger man he met at a concert? With his personal trainer? Or will his handsome next-door neighbor help him choose the right path into the future?

From 2005, my first published novel: Because friendships are best forged with least expected.
John Ramirez hates celebrity news stories. But when well-known TV comedian Joey Richards dies of a drug overdose, John's stuck covering the story for Channel 6. While digging through the comedian's messy private life, John meets Anthony Barringer, Joey's assistant. . . and perhaps more.

An unlikely friendship develops--one that transforms both men. Through their conversations in newsrooms, diners and hospitals, at parties and on jogging trails, the two men help each other find a way past old mistakes and, on the way, get a few things exactly right.