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The BEGINNER'S LUKE Series currently is being considered for publication by a mainstream US publisher. Check out the first book at Beginner's Luke (Book I of the Beginner's Luke Series).

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Below, I've included some of the glowing feedback BEGINNER'S LUKE has received from fellow writers over on the online writing community Authonomy. A number of these writers are already established--which makes their praise all the more valuable. *** Reviews by Fellow Writers *** I felt as if I was way back when and reading Tom Robbins for the first time! Obviously, from the feedback below, nobody knows how to critique this, because they can't. It doesn't follow any of the rules, so there's nothing to compare it to. Greetings … I salute the master. You've just made my day. I ... have learned by reading this book I know nothing about writing. Your name is apropos to your fantastic use of words. Sol Luckman, the lucky man with the magic pen. You captured me and had me under your spell for all thirty-five hundred words. I came here to quickly scan through your book and fell right into your trap. All I can say is you are a genius in the making, a master story teller and a whole hell of a lot of fun. This kind of writing is going to make you rich and famous. From your first paragraph, you've got me. This book is fabulous, it's been polished and fine-tuned, reads like a dream. Not only is it incredibly humorous, it's intelligent … I could keep writing on the pleasure of this book all day. Let me pause to shelve it now, and assure you this work is grand. Once in a while I'm blown away by some book I've sampled here: this is one of them. Criticism would be superfluous--you know you've written something good. You've already had some success with it and a good following. You also have the confidence to say that it is part of a series. Add me to the list of its fans/supporters. This was fabulous. So different from anything I read, but it kept me enthralled the whole time. This is fall over funny. Your wit, tongue in cheek-isms, and downright pulling the mickey is so darn refreshing and delightful!! And you do it all with such aplomb, brazenly flaunting a fabulous vocabulary, writing a captivating story, but it's soooo delicious! This is the kind of book that makes me suck my fingers and announce, scrumptious!, I'll have a second helping! A very polished, original take on the comic coming-of-age story. I suppose the references to Kerouac and Miller were what attracted me in the first place--and indeed the book started very much in Kerouac's style. I would have been content with that, but you then moved on into a totally new dimension. Exhilarating stuff. This book needs to be up there in the charts. Period. Obviously you’ve got real talent. It’s a great story, a fabulist sort of yarn told in a great voice. Miller? Kerouac? No, Luckman. You have a very personal style and I feel comparing you to those two authors takes away from the BRAVO I want to give you. Very special, very funny, weird, crazy, delicious.

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All six Books of this Series are now available on Scribd: BEGINNER'S LUKE, THE TOY BUDDHA, PORTRAITS OF AN IMAGINARY YOUNG MAN, LUKE IN EXILE, THE ACCIDENTAL GRINGO, and MORPHAMETOSIS. Enjoy the Adventure of an imaginary lifetime!

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I was recently surprised to learn that a quote from this my first novel was included in the “Sunbeams” section of the popular THE SUN magazine devoted to arts and culture–under a quote by a literary hero of mine, Jack Kerouac, no less!