new release now available for pre-order!!! I’ve been hard at work on my latest novel, The Unhuman Condition, and am pleased to be able to unveil the cover today. Here it is! The Unhuman Condition is one of my Echoes books. Like my first novel, Take Back Tomorrow, this is science fiction set in the past. Here’s the…
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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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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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I thought it might be interesting for readers of Strictly Analog to get a sense of some of the locales that show up in the novel. Since I haven’t figured out how to travel into the future yet, all I can offer are current and past visions of Los Angeles and a bit of commentary…
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I am giving away 2 signed copies of my novel, Take Back Tomorrow, on Goodreads. The contest runs until the end of this month.
I first came across a reference to Don Ryan when I was reading Kevin Starr’s Americans and the California Dream series, a remarkable history of California. Starr identified Don Ryan’s Angel’s Flight as one of the first novels about Los Angeles and Hollywood, and since that was the focus of my dissertation, I sought out…
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