I’ve published a new novel: The Extraterrestrial Researcher. About a visitor asking why and creating a disturbance doing so, as often happens, although not quite like this. It’s in digital and paperback form on Amazon. You’ll also see paperback versions of my previous novels as well as their Kindle companions. Cheerio.  

My new novel, The Big Top: A Sgt. Clanner and Insp. Bezukhov Mystery, is just out and available in digital at Amazon. It’s summer and running away to the circus is on the bucket list. A couple of questions to ask oneself. Does the circus want you? If it does and you join, can you … More Running Away to the Circus

Take a gander at my new novella recounting the tail (I mean tale) of two household animals who accept a quest delivered to them in a vision, a call for help. Entitled Waldi, Miss Wink and the Invisible Girl: Another Story from Sprinkle-on-Toste for Big Children with Large Vocabularies, it can be found on Amazon for Kindle. We … More Children’s Literature?

It has been often enough said that persons who move from their native soil to new pastures, the self-imposed or the imposed exiles, are the true citizens of the modern world. Not to claim they are at ease in their identity. Especially when 65 million people are refugees. But the exile experienced what everyone experiences … More Names as Prayer

Good advice I received once was survey widely but also go deep. Youth is a fine time for surveying widely. That’s usually what being young is about. Fast and furious around the block and beyond. It comes with its risks, badly matched sexual partners, trying out base jumping, riding overpowered motorcycles, as just three examples. … More Going Deep

Welcome to my website. I’m D. B. Sertaine and I’m an author. I’ve just published Ripped: A Gentle Fable of Homecoming in Amazon Kindle. It’s a novel about a young hippie who drops acid in 1969, goes to bed that night and wakes up ‘the next morning’ in 2015 an old man. The tale is about his … More ‘Ripped’ Just Published