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I write full-length novels that explore the social, psychological, spiritual, and philosophical issues encountered by young men and women as they grow up. The stories address serious topics and reflect real-life situations. No subject is too difficult to explore.

I began writing A Well-Lived Life in January of 2015, and since then have written in excess of 8 million words in this story alone. I've started sveral new projects - A Sailor's Diary, which provides backstory for a key character in A Well-Lived Life; and Good Medicine, a story about a young man's journey from High School graduation through college, medical school, and residency; Climbing the Ladder, the story of a hard-scrabble young man trying to make it in the big city; and From the Files of Doctor Fran Mercer, which provides background and other stories involving Fran Mercer and other AWLL favorites. All of the stories occur in the same 'universe' and there will be cameos (or more) by characters in other stories than their main one.

Make sure to review the Suggested Reading Order and see this post to find out how to get your content: How To Get Content.

If you want to read about real people with real issues and explore your deepest-held beliefs, these stories are for you. They do contain a fair bit of sexual content, but each encounter helps drive the plot and character development.

What do you get for your Patronage? Frequent updates and access to direct communication with the author. And, hopefully, hours and hours of thought-provoking entertainment.

You can also visit the AWLL Wiki for more information.

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A note about the size and scope of my work:

War and Peace has about 587,000 words. AWLL 2 - Book 10 - Bridget alone has about 640,000 words. If you read all of what I have written, it's about 12,000,000 words total, which is like reading War and Peace twenty times and still having words left to read Lord of the Rings, which is about 480,000 words (not including The Hobbit).

For other comparisons, the Harry Potter series clocks in at just over a million words, and the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan has about 4.4 million words, and is considered one of the longest (if not the longest) published series.

Just combining A Well-Lived Life, Good Medicine, and Climbing the Ladder, which are in the same universe and intertwine characters, I've beaten the record listed on Wikipedia (about 11.2 million words).

Just A Well-Lived Life, without anything else from the universe, is second on the list by a long ways, and will surpass the longest when completed..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels

If my work was published in printed form, it would be over 120 average-length hardcover books.