Category: Books

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

Movie Stars! Parties! Demons! And It’s All Free Today

The Devil You Know is FREE on Amazon for a limited time! Church Secretary. War Widow. Demon Slayer. When All Hell Breaks Loose in Hollywood, Marie Doyle Is the Only One Who Can Put a Stop to It. 1946: The war may be over, but in Hollywood all hell is breaking loose. When Marie Doyle…
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September 17, 2014 0

Undoing One of Los Angeles’ Literary Myths

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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September 12, 2014 0

It’s the End of the World as We Know It–And It’s Less Than a Buck!

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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June 24, 2014 0

Tarzan and the City of Gold: My Gateway Book

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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June 21, 2014 0

A Devil You Know Tour of 1940s Hollywood

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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June 4, 2014 0

Cover Reveal–The Devil You Know

I’ve been a bit quiet the last couple of weeks–the semester came to an end at Fullerton College, and with it came a lot of work. At the same time, I’ve been working on getting the finishing touches put onto my next book. This one’s going to be different, dipping more into Urban Fantasy than…
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May 25, 2014 0

Passion and Obsession, or Second-Guessing the Market: How a Writer Ought to Choose a Project

Last week, I had the good fortune to stumble onto Emma Donoghue being interviewed on Michael Silverblatt’s “Book Worms” show on KCRW. I’m generally not a reader of historical novels, but I’d seen a review of Donoghue’s latest book Frog Music: A Novel in a magazine a couple weeks back, and so I got sucked…
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May 7, 2014 2

Pulp Fiction, Adventure, Romance….And Time Travel–All For Free!!

Time Travel–Pulp Fiction Style Take Back Tomorrow is available as a FREE download for a limited time. Romance, mystery, pulp fiction, unscrupulous writers, and even more unscrupulous publishers….oh, and Time Travel, too.  It’s all there in Take Back Tomorrow 44 Amazon Reviews with an average 4.5 stars. “Raymond Chandler meets Robert Heinlein in this fun…
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February 28, 2014 0

How My Aliens Turned into Demons

I’m working on my next book–kind of feverishly at this point, hoping to get through the next round of edits before the serious work of my day job starts coming in. The latest book, though, isn’t exactly the newest one I’ve written. It’s one that’s been just about done for some time now and has…
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February 25, 2014 1

Two Years Before the Mast

So there I was, sitting in the lobby at the Upland Martial Arts Center, watching my daughter (a green belt at the time), go through her forms when the karate-dad sitting next to me mentioned that he’d just put a novel up on Lulu. He’d had a couple of mysteries he’d written years before that…
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January 27, 2014 0