Fiction.

We’re Not Done

Monte Tanner is a quirky forever bachelor and hopeless romantic whose admiration of women makes him a constant cheerleader and witness to their efforts to chart new lives, forge new leadership roles and capture their dreams. 

Set in Victoria, Los Angeles and New York, We’re Not Done is an exploration of the evolving relationships between the sexes when women are rising to personal and professional heights, and #metoo signals toxic males are finished. And when emotional entanglements arise, those complications become the catalyst for sober and sometimes humorous assessments on the tenuous, yet real progress women are forging and the men on board in support.

“Elaine sails on despite the horrors of her past, never letting the banality of self-serving men diminish her dreams. Jude’s career led her to the top of her profession in the music industry. And then there’s me. A bachelor without a future. What am I supposed to make of my entanglements with these two women?” Manny Monte Tanner

Storm Rolling Into Darkness

What is it like for a young girl to lose the innocence of childhood when she becomes the parent to her mother after her father walks out on the family? This unrealistic burden taints not only Andie’s childhood, but charts a dispirited road to adulthood. At forty-one, as a part-time university instructor and full-time cynic, Andie endures the inanity of life by remaining distant and unengaged. 

Seth MacFarlane might be her only salvation. While Andie views their relationship as only about hanging out, Seth is her built-in excuse for drinking. Only Seth’s kind and forgiving nature sustains their relationship. 

And Seth’s son, Rom, an autistic wide-eyed child forever locked in the warmth of innocence, reminds Andie of her childhood before that horrible day, when she and her friends chased dogs in the park on summer afternoons, until exhausted they fell to the ground laughing their guts out as hounds and mutts licked syrupy vanilla ice cream from their chins.

Storm Rolling Into Darkness is a contemporary novel set in Victoria, BC.