Tag: LITTLE ITALY

Sorry all. I’m a little rusty. The last blog, my first in almost a year, was a bit flawed. Here’s the new and corrected version…

You asking about that doc who retired six years ago? The psychiatrist? Is that the one you’re talking about?

Yep. He’s the one.

So what’s he doing? From his picture at the bottom of the page, he looks happy.

I just checked with him and he fully agreed. That grin is definitely for real. He also said that the six years flashed by like it was only a month. Boom. One day he was packing up his office, the next day he was wandering around Los Angeles thinking about stuff.

What kind of stuff?

Old friends that he hasn’t seen in many years. What it was like growing up in Philly. How he doesn’t miss the snow but he misses Fall, Spring, mustard pretzels, cheesesteaks, and having dinners with his brother in Little Italy. Being young. Summer jobs where he’d drive around to gas stations selling battery cables and wire sets to make money for college. How crazy it is that the years have passed so quickly. How sad it is that good friends have passed away. How there were many things that he wished he’d done differently. How his patients are doing. How he’s happy that he doesn’t have the responsibility for helping them feel better, but hopes that what he did do was helpful. How he often thinks about plot points and issues regarding the books that he’s writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting…and on and on.

What books?

LITTLE ITALY, a mystery. A med student is on the run from unknown killers. His only hope of survival lies in the one place he has always avoided, the darkest corner of his own mind.

Wow. Sounds scary… Any others?

PATIENT X, a mystery. After seeing his dead brother on the street in Santa Monica, a writer is attacked by 14K, a Hong Kong Triad, and hides out in a psych hospital.

Hope they make it… Are they for sale?

Yep. All on Amazon, both Ebook and paperback.

Any other books?

LUKE’S WORLD, a mystery, is almost done. A psychiatrist on the verge of divorce goes with his brother to a strip bar. Soon after, he’s being stalked and in extreme danger.

A psychiatrist in a strip bar? That’s gnarly.

You can say that again… Really gnarly! His latest novel is CRAZY IN LOVE, about a psychiatrist who risks everything to find his first love, a girl he hasn’t seen in 30 years.

Busy guy!

Also, as you can see, he redid his blog. Now it’s TALES FROM SMUKLER’S COUCH: mystery, love, and who-knows-what-else. He says that there is a lot to think about, with the world in such chaos.

He has that right.

He also hopes that some old patients will touch base and give him an update.

That sounds like it would be interesting for both of them.

It would definitely be for him…

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So as I say goodbye to my alter-muse, I say hello again to all my loyal followers.

It’s great being back.

Best Wishes,

Art