Published Projects Workshopped at MHWW

  • The Prisoner of Paradise: A Dual-Timeline Thriller Set in Venice (Painted Souls Book 1)

    A trip of a lifetime.

    A 433-year-old murder.

    An ancient order that will kill to silence the truth.

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  • Painter of the Damned (Painted Souls Book 2)

    A soul mate trapped in purgatory.

    Dangerous alliances.

    The quest for ultimate power.

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  • The Swordsman of Venice: Heart-Pounding Historical Fiction in Renaissance Italy (A Painted Souls Novella)

    A riveting short story for fans of historical fiction, adventure or star-crossed lovers. You will be spellbound by this spinoff of “The Prisoner of Paradise” and “Painter of the Damned.”

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  • Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber

    A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

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  • Bitter Vintage

    It started with a Tiffany lamp in 1995.

    Amy Dresden is used to turning men down gracefully. But when Pearce Martini sees her at an estate sale, he knows she is destined for him and doesn't plan to go away. Not knowing what else to do, she turns to next door gun dealer and ex-LAPD cop Helen Wu for advice on self-defense.

    Amy never expected she'd own a gun-or wind up in the arms of another woman.

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  • The Book of Jobs

    In this prequel to Bitter Vintage, M.L. Grider explores events in the lives of Helen Wu and Amy Dresden prior to their adventure in 1995. While these incidents may seem at first glance unrelated, they all contribute to what makes Amy and Helen who they are. Some are funny, others tragic, but that all adds up to why Helen quit the LAPD in favor of a gun shop, and Amy gave up her dream of acting to become an antique dealer.

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  • Fisher King: Percival's Descent

    Percival is an inconsequential lad stuck in the most disgusting, humiliating, and dangerous job on the planet Landis who flees to find a future at sea.

    Aboard the Fisher King, a run down, undercrewed, interstellar cargo ship, he learns important lessons[…]But his old life won’t him go. After being drug home for a murder he didn’t commit—creating a technical state of war between the Fisher King and the governments of Landis—he finds strengths he didn’t know he had. But is the personal cost just too much to save himself and his friends?

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  • I Am Not Your Guru Yet

    Now, he's a successful person on the internet. He runs his own lifestyle business, puts butter in his coffee, and quotes Nietzsche at parties. And in this groundbreaking how-to success manual, he'll teach you how to be successful just like him.

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  • Keeping Quiet About Genetic Risk

    By Susanna Joy Smith

    Article published in Health Affairs Vol. 42 No. 3 March 2023

    Failing to protect people at risk for genetic disease from discrimination may have a silencing effect and erode trust in the patient-provider relationship. Read more.

  • Blue Jay

    By Brenna Cameron

    Poem published in The Human Touch: A Journal of Poetry, Prose & Visual Arts (2022) p. 22.

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  • Ruler of the Army

    By Andre Fluette

    I woke in darkness and cold and listened to the keening of the wind as it tore at the walls of the staging building where we had taken shelter. It became known as Walaka. The Storm. The phrase, that word “storm” is inadequate…Read more.

  • When there was nothing left to say, we always had baseball

    By Ben Kissam

    An article published in the Boston Globe October 20, 2021.

    Communicating with my dad was never easy, unless we were talking about the Red Sox…Read more.