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Announcing the Carbon Atoms Broadsheet

Occasionally quotes from one of my novels take on a life of their own, such as this rejoinder from side-kick Chris Duckworth to my PI protagonist..
April 3, 2022
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Announcing Street Stories

Many of you will have seen my street photography on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter–or perhaps enjoyed the photos that served as chapter..
May 15, 2021
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Events for The Dead Beat Scroll

During my book tour for The Dead Beat Scroll, I appeared at an event at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco, where Randal Brandt, the curator..
September 30, 2019
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NY Journal of Books Review

I was very pleased to hear from Down & Out Books that my forthcoming August Riordan novel concerning a previously undiscovered Jack Kerouac..
September 9, 2019
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Lee Child Blurb

I don’t know how many–if any–blurbs Lee Child has given since he announced he is stepping away from writing the Jack Reacher series, but I was..
August 1, 2019
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James Ellroy and THE BLACK MASK

To quote Mr. James Ellroy, hello to all you “peepers, prowlers, pederasts, panty-sniffers, punks, and pimps.” I attended an event at Book Passage..
June 17, 2019
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Opening of Street Scenes around the World

My solo street photography exhibition, “Street Scenes around the World,” opened at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center. Below is a video from the..
February 12, 2017
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Vulture Capital at Antiquarian Book Fair

Randal Brandt, Bancroft Curator of the California Detective Fiction Collection, put together a special exhibit on Genre Fiction of California at..
February 12, 2017
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