A.E.S. O’Neill

Framing my life and writing is the fact that my father was a con man and mob money launderer who used his wages to pay for my very upright Quaker education, which emphasized a principled life. My natural tendency to embrace contradictions starts there and falls across all my writing.

Life was filled with wiretaps, FBI agents, and, finally, my father’s fall from grace and his federal trial. Moral ambiguity and redemption are very personal themes.

After several decades of a highly successful New York marketing career, film school, professional writing, public speaking, and travel blogging experience, throw in a big Irish-American family, stories were a big part of my life.

But it took the tragedy of losing my wife to cancer, and finding the true homage to their love living inside Ginger, to push me to finally embrace my lifelong dream to write novels.

Credit to the kind souls around me, and the beauty and kindness of my second country, Ireland (dual-citizen) in helping me heal.