I promised infrequent newsletters, and this second one follows four months after the last. I am a man of my word.

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There is a new addition to the family! With another great cover from Maddee of xuni.com.

2020 Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association Finalist

2020 Shortlist for the Chanticleer Global Thriller Book Awards

OncoLogic CEO Dr. Bryce Blanchard’s daughter, Katie, lay dying, stricken with the same merciless cancer that had taken her mother years before. The small plastic infusion bag in his jacket pocket was Katie’s last hope. Experimental and unproven, it could save her or steal what little time she had remaining.

The law says, he must do nothing.

But when is doing nothing, doing harm?

What if it was your child?

What started for Bryce Blanchard as a desperate act to save his daughter, spirals wildly out of control. One despairing patient leads to another and another. These seeming miracles bring intense media coverage.

A local Seattle billionaire will pay anything to save his son.

With his army of lawyers, a big-pharma CEO schemes to acquire the secret cure. To commercialize it and offer it to the world? Or to bury it and protect their corporate profits?

Must Bryce stand by and watch patients needlessly suffer and die?

Should he risk millions of future lives by today illegally saving a few?

What does it mean to do no harm?

On the run, besieged by media, desperate patients and parents, and doggedly pursued by a relentless big-pharma CEO, Bryce is about to come clean when an unforeseen side effect changes everything.

Do No Harm is about a universal cure for cancer, a subject near and dear to my heart. I leveraged my 35 years of biotech corporate and scientific experience, a bit of personal medical travails, threw in some medicine, corporate intrigue, human suffering, greed, selflessness, romance, human triumph, and thrilling unexpected developments.

Between now and April 25th, from the 18 entries on the shortlist, Chanticleer will announce Semifinalists, Finalists, and the winner on April 25th at their annual conference. I've got my fingers crossed.

February finds me still toiling away on Linc Malloy Book 5, Angel’s Legacy, a direct sequel to LM04, Angel’s Salvation. Linc dons his protector hat, gets himself into another fix, gets another cool airplane, and I get to learn something about Guatemala. I’m about 80% of the way to a first draft, then comes a series of revised drafts, and eventual publishing. I am anxious to get it done and start on another partially developed project. My problem is I can’t decide what to work on next, the long-neglected sci-fi adventure, LM06, Transplant Mercy, or a paranormal thriller.

I am now on Goodreads and Bookbub. Again, my works could use short reviews and/or simple ratings.

Feel free to email me with any questions, comments, suggestions, or insults.

As a reward for enduring this to the end, you can download the second Edwerd short story. Another weird story with a macabre edge, about an odd kid, his sister, and a baby pig. I’ll send a link to another with each newsletter. Collect the whole set! Feel free to share them with others.

Thank you for your time,

Domenick Venezia