Back in the days when I was a young, impressionable college student, one of my Literature professors told a story in class that really stuck with me. We were talking about Los Angeles literature, something I found interesting but didn’t know much about yet. He told the class about how F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West came…
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Last time, I started the story of how I dug into my wife’s roots and ended up figuring out what happened to her great-grandmother but then found myself with another mystery on my hands: her great-great-grandfather, John Shufelt, about whom I could find almost no information. The thing about Mr. Shufelt that bothered me was…
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I’m pretty sure I got the genealogy bug sometime during 6th grade when one of my friends informed me that his mom had been researching their family history in the library and discovered that they were related to Jesse James. It could easily have been nothing more than a 12-year-old’s boast, completely fabricated, but that…
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Her fight begins the day the world ends. I am running a Kindle Countdown Deal for my YA Post-Apocalypse novel, The Girl at the End of the World. The book will be on sale at Amazon for just 99 cents June 24th and 25th. 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 22 Amazon reviews. Scarlett…
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I must have been about eight years old. Our neighbor, a grandmotherly type whose children had all grown up, was cleaning out her garage and brought over a box of books, mostly Whitman Classics hardcovers. I could have them if I wanted them, she told me. I wasn’t a big reader at eight, but it…
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It would appear to be time to re-think the whole blog thing. I mean, blogging for fiction writers is kind of tough. You know? Conventional wisdom says indie writers need a website, a landing page for people to find their books. That’s not necessarily the same as a blog. The idea with a blog is…
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One of the funnest parts of writing The Devil You Know was working some Hollywood landmarks into the plot. As Julian Piedmont’s demons start running amok in 1946 Hollywood and Marie Doyle does her best to stop them, the characters show up in a variety of famous (and some not-so-famous) spots. Here are a few,…
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1946: The war may be over, but in Hollywood all hell is breaking loose. When Marie Doyle discovers that demons are seducing the young women of Hollywood, she doesn’t know where to turn for help. But when a demon takes the soul of her best friend, Marie has no choice but to stop them herself.…
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