About
I’m a retired global marketing-communications professional who now writes fiction full-time. Born into a U.S. family of Québécois descent, I was raised in Maine, educated in New England and the Great Lakes regions, and currently reside with my wife and our aged Pekinese in the Cleveland metro area. Bilingual in English and French, my primary intellectual interests are American, Asian, and European history and literature.
My first book, "Conversations With My Mother, A Novel of Dementia on the Maine Coast," released by Rootstock Publishing in late 2024, was inspired by my own family’s experience. Endorsed by leading Alzheimer and Dementia organizations and winner of a Literary Titan Gold Book Award, it was a finalist for the 2025 Hawthorne Prize and the 2025 Indie Excellence, International, and Literary Global book awards, and also received honorable mentions in the 2025 New England, New York, London, and Paris book festivals.
My next novel, a multigenerational saga tentatively entitled In Another Country, also draws on my family’s experience, describing and contrasting the hardscrabble life of a Québécoise who immigrates to the United States in the early 1900s with those of her increasingly affluent daughters and grandchildren over the course of the 20th century. I expect it to be ready for publication sometime in 2027.
Featured Work
Conversations With My Mother, A Novel of Dementia on the Maine Coast
"Conversations with My Mother: a Novel of Dementia on the Maine Coast" describes an elegant, elderly Francophone's struggles with dementia as her small town succumbs to real-estate development. Focused on her relationship with her acerbic caregiver daughter and peripatetic businessman son, the novel examines the siblings’ attempts to cope with their mother’s deepening decline and the impending sale of the family property to underwrite her care. Variously elegiac and witty, the book draws parallels between its beleaguered heroine’s persistent kindness and the embattled Maine’s coast enduring beauty, suggesting that, much as a place’s intrinsic beauty seldom altogether vanishes, a dementia victim’s personality doesn’t necessarily disappear. As such, it is as much about gain as loss and, ultimately, more about hope than regret.
