David A. Crossman
David A. Crossman is a modern-day polymath who – in common with polymaths throughout time – has yet to be sufficiently beguiled by any one sphere of endeavor to apply himself to it exclusively. As a result, he’s a best-selling novelist, an award-winning lyricist and composer, a writer of short stories, screenplays, teleplays, poems, and children’s books, a television producer/director (also award-winning), a video producer, radio/television talent, award-winning graphic, computer graphic artist, advertising copywriter, videographer, publisher, music producer, musician, singer, performer and … well, you get the picture. He’s shiftless – in all things but his devotion to Barbara his wife of…well, let’s say over 35 years and leave it at that.
His newest projects are another album of contemporary adult music, the graphic novel and audio book of Bean and Ab’s first adventure, The Secret of the Missing Grave and three new books; The Riddle of Misery Light – Bean and Ab’s fourth mystery; Coda – Albert’s third mystery, and The Night of the Full Moon Catch – about eight seventy and eighty-somethings who “escape” from a nursing home on the coast of Maine for one last fling aboard The Mary, the fishing boat that gave them their living for over fifty years and is slated to be sunk as part of a breakwater. “I love these old gents. I grew up with men like them and, every day, I become more like them. (They’re not as crazy as I used to believe!)”
alibifolio
March 18, 2013 at 9:49 pm
Thanks, Priscilla. I deeply appreciate your kind comments, and trust you will find the rest of my books to your liking, as well. I love English and, though I often take liberties with it – like a kid with taffy – it’s a fun, forgiving, and profoundly expressive language. It’s especially gratifying when my efforts are noted.
Having grown up there, the coast of Maine is part of my DNA, but I find that, as I get older, I’m able to subdue whichever strands are encoded with the need to return from October through late May. Hence, I don’t envy you the snow. As I walk the beach tomorrow, I’ll think of you. Thanks again, and remember, spring is just around the corner!
Priscilla Ormsby
March 18, 2013 at 4:25 pm
I have just discovered the Winston Crisp series. Finished Show of Hands and am just getting into The Dead of Winter. Wonderful story and refreshingly well written. So encouraging to find people who use the English language as it is intended. And of course learning you have Maine roots made me even more of a fan. I live in the foothills of Western Maine. Love it most of the time, although the 16 inches of white stuff predicted for tomorrow I could do without. Guess Punxsutawney Phil didn’t quite get it right. Anyway, keep writing. Once I get through the Crisp series I’ll dive into your other books.
alibifolio
October 4, 2012 at 10:19 pm
Hello, John – Thanks for your kind comments. Tell your friends. (I’m hoping you have LOTS of friends!)
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John Adams
October 4, 2012 at 7:12 pm
I just finished reading “Dead in D Minor” and “A Show if Hands.” I am hooked. You make reading fun. The characters are a welcome break from the typical and the clever prose is priceless. Thanks for the great work!
Scott Garland
August 9, 2012 at 10:48 am
I discovered your books by accident on my Kindle. I am hooked! i am half way thru Justice once removed. I am a Maine being held hostage some 35 years here in Georgia and miss the little nuances of language and comments I suspect that only someone from Maine could appreciate fully and recognize. I relate to Crisp’s feelings of age as I am in my seventies and can see it coming.