My books are unabashedly popular fiction. That is a trade term that means fiction without literary pretensions. It is also known as genre fiction, the meaning of which should be self evident. It includes mystery, suspense, thrillers, horror fiction, romance, westerns, and science fiction. Novels that are popular but not classifiable in a genre are called mainstream. Many people consider mainstream itself to be a genre. My books were classified and marketed as suspense novels.
Some time back, my longtime publisher, Dodd Mead, went belly up, bled to death by a greedy venture capitalist. That meant all our books died, too. They were no longer available to the public and we authors had no income.
A few years later, through a special arrangement by Mystery Writers of America, authors could have their out of print books republished by iUniverse.com
My first Dodd Mead book was Summer Girl, a tale of a young family victimized by a sociopathic baby sitter. The book became a made for TV movie starring Barry Bostwick and Kim Darby.
The Third Passenger, did not see quite the success of Summer Girl, but I like this jacket design. (These are not the original Dodd Mead jacket designs, they are iUniverse specials.) In The Third Passenger, a criminal on the run hijacks a small plane carrying a small family and causes it to crash.
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