Author of St. Michael Poker & Drinking Club and Baxter's Friends
A modern-day miracle throws a priest’s life into turmoil in this novel. At the outset of Randle’s tale, Father Thomas Abernathy, pastor of Belle City’s St. Michael’s Catholic Church, is having an unexpected personal crisis. The stray cat he recently befriended has been hit by a car and killed. After burying the animal, Father Tom finds himself more acutely more...
There is a nice review of ST. MICHAEL POKER & DRINKING CLUB at more...
ARCs are out for ST. MICHAEL POKER & DRINKING CLUB. Book release date is March 27th. You can pre-order on this site, Amazon, or the publisher's page- Regal House Publishing. more...
book club, Catholic, literary fiction, Lutheran, novel, release
It's been some time since I last blogged. I've been revising my second novel tentatively entitled CASUALTIES. There never seems to be a natural end to a writing project, only an arbitrary stopping point if you want to get it off your desk and into print. In addition to writing I've been traveling and reading. I try not to read fiction while writing fiction. However, I more...
Capote, Casualties, Dubliners, Harry Crews, In Cold Blood, James Joyce, novel, Tolstoy, War and Peace
My second novel is moving along nicely. I have a good draft and now working slowly through the draft to tighten it up, make sure it is cohesive and so forth. The new book is a prequel of sorts to BAXTER'S FRIENDS. Although the book features Jerry Baxter and Hugh Ferguson as teenagers, they are not the main characters. The protagonist is another boyhood friend. I'm more...
Baxter's Friends, Hugh Ferguson, Jerry Baxter, Ned Randle, novel, prequel, teenagers
Dear ned, So many times since I read your wonderful novel I have wanted to write you, tell you how much the that book and your book of poetry has touched me where I am to help me know myself, a moving target. That’s, of course, what poignant novels do, seek fictive truth about ourselves too stark and personal to bear the light of self reflection. I’m at the age of more...
I have been doing research and writing for my novel in progress which I've given the working title CASUALTIES. This work is a prequel to BAXTER'S FRIENDS. Neither Jerry Baxter nor Hugh Ferguson are the main characters; the story is told from the viewpoint of one of their high school classmates Billy Bright. Baxter and Ferguson certainly are involved in the story and more...
Baxter, Baxter's Friends, Casualties, Ferguson, novel, Viet Nam, Vietnam, World War II
Down Cemetery Road is the much-anticipated prequel to the unforgettable Baxter’s Friends. Ned Randle raises the curtain on the formative years of Billy Bright’s life, revealing a formula for his adult years that is at once both intoxicating and utterly sobering. Down Cemetery Road delves into the disillusionment of adolescence sadly often shot down by mid-life.
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