Works by
Joseph Pittman
(Editor, Writer)

As Editor

• And the Dying Is Easy (2001) with Annette Riffle
  Twenty of today's best mystery writers-from award-winners to fan favorites to soon-to-be-discovered talent-take their series sleuths on holiday. Includes stories by Edie Claire, Hazel Holt,  Jeff Abbot, John Lantigua, Judith Van Gieson, k.j.a. Wishnia, Lydia Adamson, Matt Witten, Peter Tremayne, Selma Eichler, and more.

• The Best of the Best (1998) with Elaine Koster
  Original anthology by Ed McBain, Eileen Goudge, Erica Jong, Jeffery Deaver, Joan Hess, Joy Fielding, Joyce Carol Oates, Larry Collins, Lawrence Block, Lisa Alther, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Frey, Stephen King, Tabitha King, and Wendy Hornsby

• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1998) with Elaine Koster
  For fifty years Signet books has published the finest writers the world has known, and Crimes and Misdemeanors brings together some of today's most acclaimed authors in this all-new original anthology. This rich and varied short story collection features the talents of E.L. Doctorow, Ed McBain, Eileen Goudge, Erica Jong, Jeffery Deaver, Joan Hess, Joy Fielding, Joyce Carol Oates, Larry Collins, Lawrence Block, Linda Lay Shuler, Lisa Alther, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Frey, Stephen King, Tabitha King, and Wendy Hornsby.

Novels

Journey Man Series

1. Tilting at Windmills (2001)
   With a lyrical tale of love and loss, Joseph Pittman joins the ranks of beloved authors such as Elizabeth Berg and Nicholas Sparks as he carries readers on an epic journey -- through the joys and tears of a life renewed -- and chronicles a very special love.
   
   At thirty-four, Brian Duncan has it all. The trendy Manhattan life, a fast-track job at a high-powered PR firm, a gorgeous fiancée -- a coworker with a future as exciting as his own. Then, in a single moment of deception, Brian's world crumbles. Bitterly betrayed, he decides to toss away all he has ever worked for and leave the city's busy streets behind.
   
   He finds himself irresistibly drawn to the road. On a hillside along New York's Hudson River Valley, Brian sees a giant windmill, its sails transfixing in their beauty. And running down the green hill toward the magnificent windmill is a lovely little girl, her blond hair floating in the wind. Her name is Janey, and she and her quietly alluring mother Annie, who owns the windmill, strike a chord in Brian's heart.
   
   It is a turning point in Brian's life, as he finds the small-town charms of Linden Corners comforting. He stays a day, and then another, and before long he has become another resident of this sleepy little world. Is it the windmill that has inspired him, or Annie Sullivan, whose elusive quality matches Brian's own questions about life? Even as Annie and Brian feel their relationship deepening into passion, the uncertainties they battle loom large -- perhaps too large. Through the force of nature and the hand of fate, Brian learns that love comes in unexpected ways.

2. When the World Was Small (2002)
   George Denton never believed in the notion of love at first-sight -- not when his parents regaled him with the story of how they met -- not when his elderly grandmother married her bridge partner -- not even when the prettiest girl in all the world moved to the picturesque village of Lincoln Point. But from the moment the baby who came to be called Sky let out his first wail inside the house on Archer Avenue, George knew his life would never be the same again. Here was a child orphaned at birth, a child seemingly blessed with a remarkable gift, looking to his Uncle George to teach him the lessons of life, of the power of love and the realization of dreams.
   
   Spanning two decades, When the World Was Small is filled with the memorable moments of the Denton family, events funny and sad, poignant and powerful, tragic and thrilling. It is a tale of dreams both realized and unfulfilled, and of the special relationships that help define who we are, and who we become.

3. Legend's End (2006)
   A sudden loss in Carson Alden's life brings with it an unexpected surprise that carries him home to Turner Junction. Though it's the town he was born to, it's also a place he barely remembers. Upon his arrival at the historic Bolton Hotel, he is immediately faced with images of yesteryear, photographs on the walls that illustrate the town's rich history. There he also meets an elderly woman known as "the Duchess", the town's revered keeper of the legends, a woman who loved great and lost greater.
   
   Lauren Hendricks first came to Turner Junction to care for her elderly grandfather, Edgar, a man who loves nothing more than riding along the Empire One's rusted rails. Now a local real estate agent, it is Lauren who will hand Carson the keys to his house, helping him unlock the secret of why he was taken from Turner Junction after the untimely death of his parents. But Carson will find more find than a new home and a new life, he will unwittingly give rest to the town's one remaining legend.

4. The Silver Moon (Tentative Title, in progress)
   Set in the Adirondack region of New York State.

Todd Gleason Crime Series

1. London Frog (2007)

2. California Scheming (Future Release)