I’m the award-winning author of numerous novels in diverse genres, including the sassy Southern mystery Aftermath, my kidnapping thriller Watch What You Say, the domestic drama about reinvention The Caretaker, the novel of forgotten US history The Five Destinies of Carlos Moreno, and my bestselling Southern Gothic historical novel Hardscrabble Road, a favorite with book clubs. The long-awaited sequel, Return to Hardscrabble Road, was published in 2022 and is winning awards. I’ve also published a satirical “pre-apocalyptic” sci-fi comedy titled Offlining under the unimaginative pen name of GJ Weinstein.
I often speak at book clubs, conferences, workshops, and other events. I have been an active participant and leader within the Atlanta Writers Club since 2001, and I direct the AWC’s twice-yearly Atlanta Writers Conference, voted the best writers conference in Georgia for two years in a row by The Writer magazine.
Return to Hardscrabble Road, the sequel to my best-known novel, Hardscrabble Road, was published in October of 2022. It picks up right where the first book ends and continues the (mis)adventures of the MacLeod clan, as the three brothers try to defend their family from old and new enemies
. It’s already winning awards and rave reviews from Hardscrabble fans as well as 
those who haven’t read the first book and is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
If you’re searching for an irreverent satire—something completely different from my usual dramas—then you might enjoy Offlining, published in June of 2023. There’s something in that book to offend everyone, but it will also provide a lot of belly laughs, snort, guffaws, and chuckles, so hopefully you’ll forgive the troublesome parts or do the polite Southern thing and pretend it never happened.
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