Going Strong in 2022

We are still plugging away.  Apologies for the hiatus on this blog but our individual projects have pulled us away.  

Over the last year, Chris has rounded out his Blessid Trauma Crime Scene Cleaner Series, with his novel Zero Island, set in Hawaii, available and doing well, and with his novel 2 Street, set in Philadelphia, which has appeared this summer and is in promotion. In addition, Air Race, his co-authored thriller novel with USA Today bestselling author Andrew Watts, set in the Middle East, is out this month in e-book.  Congrats to Chris.

Dave is continuing work on this F-Land manuscript, a novel that follows a Catholic priest in Pennsylvania through the topics of gay clergy life, the drug epidemic, and economic struggles in America.  He is also advancing this manuscript about a Black youth from the south who comes to Philadelphia to become a charismatic religious leader, based on an actual historic figure.  He is submitting the lead chapter as a short story.

Jackie continues to outline and plan her novel The Kindle, a high-concept character-driven story about a marriage and a haunting, paranormal event that informs the protagonist’s decisions.

Martha remains on extended hiatus and sabbatical from the group, but we hope for her return in the fall of this year.  And we do so look forward to whatever she’s been working on and to reviewing the revised manuscript of her eco-thriller set in Florida.

Russ has been preparing for the 2023 release of his novel Ella’s War, which enters the developmental edit phase with the publisher at the end of this summer.  With invaluable help from his fellow Rebels, he has also completed our tribute to our lost colleague, John Wirebach, with a revision of John’s crime/detective novel Mean Streets Paris ’44, which now enters the pitching/querying phase.  Finally, Russ has started a screenplay/streaming series treatment package and is in discussions about it with his director colleague Alex Steyermark.

More good news!  Jennifer Giacalone joined the Rebels this year.  Jennifer is a communications professional and a previously published novelist.  She has received recognition for her short stories as well.  Her bio coming soon to the homepage here.

Plus, we are meeting in person again in lovely Bucks County!  (Enough with Zoom, already…)  Yay.