Though I did not do much writing during my years practicing medicine, I was quite into wordiness as a teenager. I suppose I found it a good outlet for teen angst. During that period I wrote a number of short stories, many based on TV series of the time (today they’d be called “fanfiction”) and also a full-blown novel that takes place in the Old West and with characters based on high-school acquaintances. You will never see any of those teen writings posted here! Since retiring from medicine I have again taken up my pen (or, truth be told, the keyboard) and have begun reenergizing the creative juices. In 2023 I published my first novel, The Marquis’s Healing, a period romance that takes place during the Crimean War. It is the first in a planned trilogy called “The Carmichael Saga.” The second book in the series, The Spare’s Discovery. came out in 2024. I now am busy putting my little grey cells to work for the third book in the trilogy, The Spy’s Salvation, which I hope to have available sometime in 2025.

There are quite a few other stories still in my head, so with luck I hope to add several more book covers to my webpage. Stay tuned! I also write for a couple blogs that can be found online: the Mind, Soul & Body blog (a monthly feature of “God-styled Life with Maggie P”), and my own blog, Ramblings of a Retired Doc, which I add to as I feel inspired to do. There also is a little Facebook page (DW Craton) about my latest book — more of a page to discuss my latest book, but one on which I throw out tidbits about the continuing saga of the Duke of Whittington’s family from time to time.