ENTERING THE AUDIOBOOK ERA

After six years of self-publishing, I was invited to try Amazon’s audiobook Beta testing. It worked out just fine.

Today, I’m taking a break from politics and law to talk about my passion for fiction writing. I was a criminal and immigration defense lawyer for nearly four decades, during which time my MA in Creative Writing gathered dust until I retired and spent three years in Bangkok, joining a great writers' group called Keybangers Bangkok. These days, I’m based out of Tampa, Florida, with frequent visits to the Kingdom, but I write wherever I am, just about every day. Did I mention I love doing it?

It’s been almost six years since I self-published my first novel, Bangkok Shadows. Three other novels followed, comprising what has become known as the NJA Club Series. set in Bangkok, and revolving around the adventures of US expat criminal lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen and his eclectic band of friends from the mysterious NJA Club. Over the years, Glenn and company have kidnapped a wanted Russian gangster, battled North Korean hit squads, outwitted dangerous Chinese spies, and dispatched an overseas delegation of the Brooklyn Mafia. I describe the novels as “exotic noir thrillers,” and while Michael Connolly and James Patterson don’t yet feel me breathing down their necks, I’ve developed a loyal readership, provoked some controversy (Glenn is very anti-Trump, and although he’s an outlier among his crowd on this, the Trumpie readers are apoplectic that a protagonist loathes their cult leader. My attitude is, if they bought the book, bless their…