The author tells the story of his teen years growing up in the 1960s.

Jon’s sixteenth year wasn’t going well.

He thinks his father hates him, he’s desperate for a girlfriend, and his car keeps catching fire. Still, gas is 35¢, cigarettes are 30¢, and a six-pack of beer costs $1.50. What more could a growing boy want?

During the glory days of the Pocono Mountains resorts, Jon is mentored by a cagey hotel maintenance man and a psychotic car mechanic. He’s nearly shot by a trigger-happy drunk, and encounters a disturbed child in an eerie old hotel. He finds true love in a walk-in freezer.

His first love is a classmate at school, and a great romance ensues. At the same time, however, Jon can’t resist the new girl, who soon gets pregnant. Jon believes his life to be over. He will lose his great love and forfeit college—his future looks bleak.

By 1969, he falls in with members of a rock band who will be attending Penn State with him in the fall. At the now derelict old hotel where he worked years earlier, Jon considers the road he has traveled and the looming specter of adulthood.

If you think the end of the world is scary, wait until Lou Ray Flitch takes charge.

Lou Ray Flitch is a neurotic, pill-popping recluse who discovers a prophetic Victorian diary in an old armoire, only to learn that the end of the world is just around the corner. With his trusty dog, Jason, Lou Ray ventures out to warn the world that the end is near, but people keep trying to steal the diary.

Written a century before by British clairvoyant Permelia Lyttle, the diary hides many other secrets: a murder mystery, and Permelia’s strange life in the Women’s Lunatic Asylum, where she was forced to give psychic readings to the power elite of her day. Prophecies unite in this satirical novel of eccentric villains, top-level conspiracies, the Apocalypse, and one really terrific dog. Follow Lou Ray’s search for redemption, inept gun play, and discovery of the meaning of life while dancing the naked tango with the sweet but quirky Abigail Lind in the midnight gardens of Belvedere.

Sure, the end of the world came. But it wasn’t anything like Lou Ray and Abigail expected.

In this sequel to Permelia Lyttle’s Guide to the End of the World, Lou Ray’s wife Abigail believes the end is just around the corner. So, the resourceful heiress buys and restores an abandoned village where she hopes to create an idyllic community for surviving in style. However, the apocalypse turns out to be worse than anyone imagined.

With the digital age fizzled and the government a no-show, Dunkard Bottom is American ingenuity at its quirky best under the threat of white-collar terrorists, illness, death, and gardening.