This web site enables you to read extracts from Gary Forrester’s novels, to hear songs from his music albums, and to learn more about the background to the novels and songs.  It also has blogging capability, and if you’re interested, it tells you how to purchase the novels and the music.

Click here and then on "Listen to Part 3" to hear Sara Schlossman's interview with Gary Forrester, author of Houseboating in the Ozarks.  Enjoy!

Meet Christian Leonard Hooker, Everyman, redeemed by his weaknesses, saved by his failures. . .

from the opening of Houseboating . . .

My name is Finbar Studge.  I am a writer.  Many years ago, I wrote a collection of short stories that achieved modest critical success in America, and even more modest sales.  Encouraged by the critical response, I embarked on a novel in which I meditate on the human condition, based loosely on a series of reflections on the death of my father when I was seventeen.  As I began, I was much older than my father had ever been, which caused me to see his life in a more sympathetic light.  When the novel was finally finished, I called it Groin Damage. (click here to continue with the foreword)