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About Me

I am a Sacramento based freelance writer and award winning author of short fiction. I am also the author of California Justice - Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinations in the Golden State on Word Dancer Press

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I would like to meet Elvis Costello just so that I could punch him out for making such crappy records for the last two decades.

My Blog

Preview Chapter from Death In California

Jumped the Gun - July 7, 1950 - Santa BarbaraGuy Gilpatric was a successful and multi-talented man who appeared to have the golden touch with every occupation that he went into. During his vast and va...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:30:00 GMT

New Amazon Review of California Justice

California History From the Criminal Point of View, ..January 13, 2009.. ..By Sacramento Book Review "Sacramento Book Review" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews..Shoot outs, lynchings, and massacr...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:32:00 GMT

Preview chapter of Death In California:The Bizarre, Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People in t

The Snake Woman - Cypress, Orange County - July 20, 1948 Grace Olive Wiley was a pioneer in the field of herpetology, the study of reptiles and amphibians. Born in in Chanute, Kansas in 1883, she att...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Goodbye 2008

I'm very happy to see 2008 disappear. It has been a very busy year for me, with big highs and big lows. California Justice is selling steady and will go into a second printing in 09 and I spoke at th...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:30:00 GMT

Petaluma is berry berry good to me

Once again, the great people at Copperfields Books in Petaluma were so good to me. It was a beautiful sunny day, unlike most of the country this weekend. I sold every single copy of California Justic...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:57:00 GMT

My last Meet & Greet for Awhile - Petaluma's Copperfield Books this Sat.!!!

Im going to be at Copperfields Books in Petaluma (140 Kentucky Street) on Saturday, December 20th at 1p.m. for a Meet and Greet for my book, California Justice - Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinati...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:54:00 GMT

Preview chapter from my new book, Death In California [Word Dancer Press]

I'm posting this chapter for your gruesome reading enjoyment.  Death in California will be out next Fall  ____________________________________________________________ There Goes the Neighbo...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:05:00 GMT

Chapter from California Justice - Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinations in the Golden State

The Odd Fellows Lynch a Southerner-May 9 and June 9, 1878 Windsor and Santa Rosa, Sonoma County - Trail of Dead  2 While mob justice in early California was certainly not officially condoned, it wa...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:34:00 GMT

Petaluma Meet and Greet

Im going to be at Copperfields Books in Petaluma (140 Kentucky Street) on Saturday, December 20th at 1p.m. for a Meet and Greet for my book, California Justice - Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinati...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:21:00 GMT

Independent Bookstores that dont support Independent Writers

I'm going to vent my spleen about something that is not spoken of within the "writers" circle"& Independent Bookstores. Now there are a lot of really great independent bookstores out there that are n...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:57:00 GMT