More Manhattan Project Novels and a New Nonfiction Book Lately I feel pulled between setting up publicity ops for my novel that will be...

My Favorite Manhattan Project Novels As I wrote my novel, Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak , I began to search for other novels set...

Sex in the Senior City Leslie author photo 1984 Leslie author photo 2025 In 1984, I wrote a book titled Prime Time: Sex for Men over...

The Guilt Trope in Manhattan Project Novels Guilty Scientist The movie  Oppenheimer,  as well as almost every novel written about the...

Would you read a novel if you thought the heroine might die at the end? Fantasy Black Hole Hi, my valued Substack followers and...

Anatomy of a Scene: Fleshing Out the Skeleton of a Story The Piano Store One of my mother’s Oak Ridge stories was, as best I can recall,...

My Family in Summer, 1943 A Video Time Machine: Two Sisters, Two Family Eras                 Why do some siblings turn out to be so...

Hydrogen bomb (<a href="https://www.vecteezy.com/free-photos/hydrogen-bomb">Hydrogen Bomb Stock photos by Vecteezy</a>) Why I Would Want...

My Mother's Music                  As I began to write my novel Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak , based in part on my parents’...

Radiation safety was a relatively new field during the Manhattan Project when my father was a twenty-three year old electronics...

I want to introduce myself to strangers and reintroduce myself to friends as an author of fiction. After a long career as a clinical...