Cash and Carrey Featured In Seacliff Living Magazine
DELIGHTED to be featured in the current issue of Seacliff Living, where they talk about my new comedy, Cash and Carrey. It’s a funny book!
Cash and Carrey NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER!
Just one more piece of great news! Yesterday, Cash and Carrey debuted at Number One for New Releases For American Humorous Fiction! Look at the attached screecap! I’m over the moon! You can get a copy here: https://shorturl.at/kNQ34
The Freeze Will Chill You!
Just finished a splendid YA novel by R.D. Stevens. Good science fiction is never really about the future: it is a funhouse mirror to the present. Some writers use this to poke fun at contemporary mores; others, more serious minded, issue warnings. Such is the case with R. D. Stevens’ magisterial The Freeze. Set in […]
Los Angles Times Feature Story
The Los Angeles Times Huntington Beach edition was gracious enough to do a story on SPIKED! and yours truly. This is a terrific article by Matt Szabo, and I’m very grateful to have it out there. You can find it here: https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2022-12-02/huntington-beach-author-challenges-stereotypes-in-new-novel
American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny, by Christopher Miller
American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny, by Christopher Miller came as a delightful surprise. Arranged alphabetically, Miller enumerates the countless tropes so frequent in American comedy circa 1900-1966, and why they were funny and what they tell us about Americans of old. Miller creates an artificial cutoff of 1966, citing anecdotally that […]
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
William McGuire “Bill” Bryson (born 1951) has written several amusing books on language, science and travel. He has also been a fixture on television and radio, and is one of the smartest and funniest men on the contemporary scene. However, the Bill Bryson that I enjoyed the most was the gentle memoirist who […]