A Novice’s Guide to Entertaining


Everything you ever wanted to know about the fine art of entertaining is contained in this helpful “how to” guide that’s best characterized as an aid to planning, preparing, and presenting meals to friends.

The book covers it all: from managing your larder, to serving diverse and appetizing dishes to your guests, and to preparing simple easy-to-fix meals for one or two—all with the aim of mastering how to spend most of your time with your company and far less of it in the kitchen.

A Season of Transitions


As the 1960s are coming to a close, New York corporate exec, Cam Gordon, is facing the same kinds of trials that responsible parents and dedicated professionals contend with today.

From unwelcome developments at his company, to problems at home, readers are drawn into a true to life account of a single father trying to juggle his younger son’s drug involvement, the possible loss of a first-rate corporate job, and his cautious search for a new and enduring relationship.
Labyrinth of Extremes


The chronicle resumes. During an overseas trip, Cam bumps into a former sweetheart. Their love is rekindled, but along the way there are snags. A son gets into drugs, and his company management may decide to reorganize. If so, his five-star job will surely be at risk. At the same time, he's faced with a life-threatening health issue that leaves him with a broken heart.

The Guardsman of Murray Hill

Here are short stories that to some extent drew on Lanier´s personal relationships with the people, and the events, and the places with which he was familiar. Although it isn’t possible to determine if the names and professions of the characters are accurate, the stories are thought to be fictional. But readers will find that each vignette comes with its own set of emotions: from amusing to painful, to bizarre, to absorbing, to poignant, and more.

The setting is The Guardsman on Lexington Avenue near Thirty-fourth Street, and all of the anecdotes take place in, or involve, this special place. It was home to regulars who shared their friendship, and, to some extent, their lives over drinks, and food, and stories—and darts, liar’s dice, backgammon, and poker.

The episodes predate Cheers, are different, but are just as captivating. It is with the thanks of the Lanier children that Mr. Gibson has reworked the original manuscript and made it ready for publication.
Other Irons in the Fire

Mr. Gibson expects to have But One Bridge to Cross in print by late November. He's also working on one other manuscript. It’s another draft that was written by his late friend, Paul Lanier, and it’ll take several weeks of editing and rewriting before it can be offered to the publisher. The title is My Mother Told Me—Lanier’s own story of growing up in the 1930s and 40s.