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cover for the novella The Byrd River Flood

New Book Release

My new novella, The Byrd River Flood, was just released by Paper Angel Press. Inspired by the true story of the 1995 Pajaro River flood in Watsonville, California, The Byrd River Flood is an adaptation excerpted from my eco-thriller, Fruit of the Devil. It portrays the social, emotional, environmental, personal, and political causes and costs […]

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Rough Cut: Indigenous Thanksgiving Sunrise

A Short History of the annual Native American Alcatraz Island Un-Thanksgiving Sunrise Ceremony This is a “rough cut”—an excerpt edited out of my novel, Fruit of the Devil, due to the fact that it was deemed too “history heavy” for a fictional read. It is important that we study history so we don’t repeat our

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Rough Cut: Grizzly Bears in California!

So you don’t think there were Grizzly Bears in California in 1999? You might be in for a surprise. To find out more, read this latest excerpt from my novel, Fruit of the Devil. (A short stand-alone thriller with a speculative twist, published in the Santa Cruz Weird anthology, available on Amazon.)  The Fish and

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