Announcement… “The Meeting” 28 Jan 202028 Jan 2020 Flash fiction: literature in doses as small as a bullet...and as hard-hitting, if you do it right. And apparently I did: my very short story, "The Meeting," appeared today on…
Author post Locals Only! 26 Sep 2019 For Los Angeles locals only: Books by yours truly are now available at three Los Angeles Public Library branches! You can find my two novels in the Fairfax branch library…
Author post… Too Much Plot, Too Little Existential Despair 2 Sep 20192 Sep 2019 Huh. Just finished Jo Nesbo's The Son, and I think that I'm now done with Scandi-noir, after a good long run with it. I've read a round dozen or so…
Announcement 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…
Announcement Friends, Colleagues, Acquaintances! Lend Me Your Eyeballs! 2 Jul 20182 Jul 2018 If you are reading this, you probably have some interest in my writing. And that perhaps allows me to ask you a favor. But fear not! It will cost you…
Announcement Crime and Punishment, American-Style 31 Mar 201831 Mar 2018 Lock the doors and latch the windows: it's time to read more noir--if you dare! Yes, I've got another story published in Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, available now for Kindle,…
Announcement… Teaser: “My Turn to Die” 28 Feb 201828 Feb 2018 I have finished the third draft of my next novel, titled My Turn to Die, and am grinding through the process of offering to agents while deciding whether I'd really…
Announcement In the Material World 19 Jan 2018 The picture heading this post shows one of my novels, Family Ties, in the new books display at the Echo Park branch library here in Los Angeles. This means new…
Author post… Recursions, Part 5: Flannery O’Connor’s “Mystery and Manner” 30 Jul 201730 Jul 2017 This is the fifth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post Cruel Graces 11 Jul 201730 Sep 2017 The grace of a cat is rooted in cruelty. Not just the cruelty of the kill itself, which, if you abstract it from the pain it imposes, is beautiful as…
