“Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.”

Progress [prog-res] --noun:

Along The Way:

The only reason I was able to publish Partners Again is because I finally forced myself to put down my pen and let it be. The hardest thing in the world for me is to stop writing or tweaking a story. As my stories progress, the characters and themes become ever the more complex and a whole world evolves before my very eyes. The great task then becomes not ‘how shall I finish’, but what details do I share along the way? Imagine if you were only given a very few pages in which to explain the numerous experiences of your life—that is a rather big problem, you see? But out of all the problems one could have, I have to admit I rather fancy mine—rewriting again and again and again is like visiting old friends on holiday.

Here are a few of the many manuscripts I have finished and am in the process of revising. Keep looking back for details about our Critics' Blurb Contest, where one lucky fan will have the opportunity to receive a pre-print copy of the second book that will be published, and write a blurb (“Amazing!”, “Fantastic!”, “Arthur T. Lee has done it again!”, and the like) for the back cover—Coming Soon!

Novels In The Works:

Middle Grade Novels:

The Corndog Caper:
A Gamble Waskowitz Mystery—Solved!

Pitch Line: It is a dark and stormy night. A murder is being committed. A frozen corn dog lay just inches from the body. A nose…The Nose is on the scent.

Corndog Caper begins with the death of the richest (and meanest!) man in the sleepy town of Fruitland. The down-and-out Chief of Police suspects a heart attack. But Gamble Waskowitz, an unorthodox detective with a proboscis for crime, smells otherwise. And when the local Junior Reporter for The Times disappears, the beloved celebrity Billy Nuderman launches his new line of barbecue sauce then gets arrested, and Tony “The Toe” Crimanelli escapes from prison, things really get fishy.

The Great Calamity of Whiskey Ridge

Pitch Line: When the serpent beguiled Eve, man fell. When Myron Walker married Ma, woman fell. When they tried to make money off a pig named Sue with a miraculous birthmark on her posterior, all of Whiskey Ridge fell.

When Myron’s pa dies in the battle of Gettysburg by way of a Union bar, he sets out to the hills to live a solitary life of trappin’ and moonshine—the way the good Lord intended man to live. But his own little Garden of Eden goes up in smoke when he stumbles into the quaint town of Zion, proposes to the first girl who smiles at him, traps the biggest coon known to man on their honeymoon, then establishes the city of Whiskey Ridge and makes himself honorary mayor. And it all goes down hill.

Young Adult Novels:

Miracle at Folsom

Pitch Line: The war was over. The times had changed. The music too.

Miracle is about a boy and his father and the influence Johnny Cash’s famous visit to Folsom Prison has on their relationship and their family.

Beyond the Doorway

Pitch Line: To every place worth going, there is a door. For every door worth entering, there is a key. And behind every key worth turning, there is a need; a desperate need that unlocks that door; a sacred need that reveals that place.

Beyond the Doorway introduces a world inhabited by men and women whose sole job is to play the characters in our dreams. It is the only world they know. But when something goes wrong, one character must go beyond the doorway of their world and into the real world in order to save the very thing she loves most.