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Back in the U.S. of A.
Three months away from Orange County, California is always enough for a bit of reverse culture shock, but it's still good to be home. I just flew in the other day after two months in Portugal and one...
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What I Learned from Soccer
When I was a kid growing up in Southern California, I played an awful lot of soccer. Starting at the age of eight years old I played on local teams, all-star teams, traveling club teams, and later my...
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New Sweet Ophelia Cover
It has been ten months since I launched my last book, Sweet Ophelia, a novel about the gritty streets of Hollywood, the film industry and second chances. I originally had a woman's heavily made up...
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The Writing Lottery
I’m putting the finishing touches today on my latest novel, Natalia, which has me thinking a little bit about its prospects. I’m feeling pretty good about the book. It has taken me quite a bit longer...
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Happy Independence Day!
Here in the U.S. we're celebrating Independence Day, and though it was actually cool and cloudy all day here in Laguna Beach, there was still a nice fireworks show to cap off the day:So to all of the...
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Clean Mountain Air
I've been neglecting this blog a little bit lately as I've focused on getting my revisions of Natalia finished up instead. I did manage to get a beta version done, and now I've received some good...
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A Writer's Schedule
The beauty of a writer's schedule is in it's unparalleled flexibility. As an independent writer with no deadlines, I can work whenever and wherever I want. Unfortunately I can also not work wherever...
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New Bike!
After going down to Laguna Beach to spend a few weeks seeing friends and family, I'm back in Mammoth Lakes now, in the Sierra Nevada mountains, plugging away at the final revisions of my new novel,...
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Photo of the Day: Lake George
I'm still enjoying my time here at Mammoth Lakes in the Eastern Sierra, getting out in the afternoons to hike and bike. This place is not only home to a ski resort where I taught snowboarding for five...
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Natalia Prologue
I was hoping to have my new novel Natalia uploaded to Amazon today, but it seems the more revisions I make, the more I need to make. So now I'm just about there, but I might read the whole thing...
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Photo of the Day: Coyote
I'm still enjoying my time in the Eastern Sierra at Mammoth Mountain, writing in the mornings and getting out and about in the afternoons. Today I went for a mountain bike ride in an area called Inyo...
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Photo of the Day: Mt. Whitney
I started out the day waking up to this view of Mount Whitney, highest peak in the continental U.S., as the sun came up:I was camping out down in the Alabama Hills on the way back up to Mammoth Lakes...
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Natalia Is Finished!
Ahhh, I'm finally done with my latest novel, Natalia! It is currently up on Amazon and available for download as an ebook for Kindle. Other formats and a paperback version will be coming soon, but...
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One Tough Business
After finally finishing and posting my latest novel to Amazon and Barnes and Noble last week, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. The revisions alone took me roughly twelve months to complete. It's not...
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Natalia: The Story Behind the Story
My latest novel, Natalia, is out this week and this one is quite a departure from my previous two books. This novel is a suspense set in the dark underworld of sexual exploitation in the former Soviet...
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Tinseltown Blues
I've decided to change things up a little bit with my novel Sweet Ophelia. I'm very proud of that story, though it never did sell quite as well as I'd hoped. A huge part of the equation is whether or...
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Ok, how about this one?
After some comments from the Kindle Boards community, I decided to change up the title and cover of the former "Sweet Ophelia" yet again. It seems that people thought the "Tinseltown Blues" version...
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"Natalia" paperback giveaway
Natalia is now available on Amazon as a paperback, and to celebrate I'm giving away a free copy to U.S. residents (sorry international readers!). To enter, go the the Goodreads page by clicking on the...
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Is this party over?
I made the decision to put my books up for sale on Amazon and other e-book retailers in the summer of 2010. Things were just beginning to take off in this space at that time, with a growing enthusiasm...
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One of those in-between times
I've been a bit lazy about updating my blog since I finished my last novel, Natalia. After focusing so hard for so long on one project, I'm now in one of those in-between times, with one project...
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