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Family Ties: a Novel

Finders, Losers A lakeside cabin in the Sierra foothills, a canyon village divided between old coots and laid-back hippies, and…

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The Dust Will Answer: a Novel

No Lofts, No Lattes. No Law. 1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and…

Local Exposure

29 Jun 201930 Jun 2019

In this silly new world, "content creators" is an inelegant term that reeks of the business world and its recategorizing of human life as an expendable, much in the way…

“Fade to Gray”

25 Jun 201925 Jun 2019

Another story of mine was just published in India's Bangalore Review, and is available for free online: "Fade to Gray" Pretty hard-hitting, I realize, as I read it again. In…

I’ve Got Mine…Now Get Yours!

19 Jun 201919 Jun 2019

I received my copy of American Writers Review at last, in yesterday's mail, and it is a handsome anthology: well-bound, with a good cover, and easy to read inside (despite…

Mini Review: “Lawn Boy,” by Jonathan Evison

13 Jun 201915 Jun 2019

Lawn Boy, by Jonathan Evison If you threw J. D. Salinger, Oscar Wilde, Jack London, and maybe Gerald Durrell into a blender, added a spoonful of Warhol and a dollop…

The Big Cover-Up

It's a big cover-up: same great text, but suspiciously better presentation! I took the photos, but it's graphic artist Rensi Ke who turned them into real book covers. You can…

American Writers Review

31 May 201931 May 2019

Here we go again...the 2019 issue of American Writers Review is available now on Amazon, $15.00 for a nice fat print book full of short stories. Including one of mine, "Beach…

Printed in Blood….

29 May 201918 Jul 2019

The print edition of Switchblade #9, which includes my story, "Prisoners," is now available at Amazon. And given the contents of this deeply noir compilation, it should be printed in…

Waiting Game

27 May 201927 May 2019

The waiting game is always a bit difficult: the one, I mean, which you play after the story has been accepted but before it appears in print or online. After…

“Prisoners” Reviewed

As you may know, I have published three stories in Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, since early last year. Here's a favorable review of the current issue, Switchblade #9, with this…

Managing Distraction

I recently saw an ad for the Freewrite, a "distraction-free" portable word processor--that is, one with no Internet capability. I immediately recognized it as something inspired by the old Alphasmart…