Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. This is merely informational. BELOW IS MY EXCHANGE WITH A SCAMMER WHO GOT PRETTY FAR ALONG, BUT MY INSISTENCE THAT I GET REFERENCES AND TALK WITH JOANNA DIRECTLY RESULTED IN MORE AND MORE EXCUSES. THEY’VE GOT A FISH ON THE LINE AND THEY DON’T WANT ME GETTING OFF THE…
Hi Everyone, I’ll be at the LA Times Festival of Books 2025 on April 26 from 2-5:45pm selling and signing copies of my three novels: Dark Paradise, Sweet Paradise, and Crime Paradise. I hope to see y’all there. I’ll be at the Acorn Publishing Booth 731 located near the YA (young adult) Stage. I hope…
What the fuck was he doing here?Theo had planned this out. He had contingencies in place for many things: a beat cop who happened by, a browser who wouldn’t leave, a kid who had to have a Charleston Chew from this store every night at nine o’clock. He hadn’t planned for Fitts. Theo felt the…
Before I write, I mostly journal in a stream-of-consciousness fashion. I look at it as my warm-up, just like mini-tennis before I move to the baseline in a practice session. Many times, journaling loses me in some place I don’t intend to go. It seems like a waste of time. However, I’ve come to believe,…
The narrative voice in this novel is exceptionally enjoyable. I laughed a lot more than anticipated for a book about test fighter pilots and the space program. I especially found the the “voice” of the chimps that Wolfe employed amusing and heart-breaking all at once. Those poor primates in the “box.” In a lot of…
This revenge mystery had me from the start of this novel, where her suddenly dead friend, Sasha, leaves Eleanor $50k to “get” her ex-boyfriend, but is entirely unclear about how or why she should do this. After meeting Jonathan Neel, an advertising executive, she’s more convinced than ever that this arrogant, vacuous man deserves whatever…
Book Commercial for Boise Montague Mysteries On President’s Day 2023 we shot a book commercial for my Boise Montague mysteries. I had decided to create a commercial months ago, but I could not bring myself to shoot the darned thing. I wrote the commercial, wrote the shooting schedule, storyboarded the entire commercial, all 40 seconds…
As there are no direct flights to the Oldest City in the U.S. from Los Angeles, I flew into Orlando, rented a Tesla and drove the two-and-a-half hours. On the way, we did something I always say I’m going to do, but rarely ever do: we spontaneously stopped in a town because of a sign…
Yeah, yeah, this novel is old. Real old. Like Mickey Mouse and Chet Baker old-timey old. So what. It’s good. It’s cutting-edge. The characters are raw and bolder than most of the books coming out today from the major houses. Thomas Ripley is one of a kind. A man with a talent for impersonation, forgery,…
As you’ve probably noticed by my reviews I’m not much for reading the latest releases. I tend to jump around, get into a particular author or hear about a particular book, then read it, whether it was released in 1898 or in 2021. This month’s review is no exception to that rule. Men Without Women (also the…