Here are some of my publications-ongoing, and some of them are available to you online (just click on the title). Or you can download some of them for free! Do you like fiction, poetry, or non-fiction? Or perhaps you're interested in my favorite authors? You can also find information at my Facebook fan page!
Mi Vida Angelica Unpublished mss., unfinished. (Nobody knows what it's like to be me. Well, maybe you can guess.)
A Tour of the Grisly, Bizarre, Simply Star-struck, and Perfectly Ordinary in Los Angeles, California Unpublished mss., unfinished. (A very long guidebook with a very long title. A geographical essay demonstrating why we deserve some kind of accolade, either for coming in first, or coming in last.) This project will soon appear at californiawiki.org, and will incorporate the entire state.
The Bathtub; Or, Adios, Hollywood. Unpublished mss., unfinished. (A week in the life of screenwriter/actress Barbara La Marr, the first Southern Californian to make it big in the movie business, and one of the first to die of it, January 1926, R.I.P.)
A Girl and Her Cat. Unpublished mss., unfinished. (The sordid tale of two young women who participate in a ghastly revolution in California during the 21st Century, as told by witnesses.)
I Rode With Bonnie and Clyde Unpublished play, unfinished. (Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow disappeared between July and November of 1933. Where did they go? Suppose they hid out with a distant cousin, arguing about Death and God while Bonnie worked on her poetry and Clyde cleaned his guns. Just suppose.)
The Memoirs of a Hollywood Asshole Unpublished mss., unfinished. (You never liked the police, especially when they kicked in your door and arrested your girl for beating you up. A collection of short stories about a bunch of dimwits getting too drunk and ending up in bed with each other, not based on my personal experience.)
Tales of Love, Madness, Death and Surreptitious Cigarettes from the Arizonans. Unpublished mss., unfinished. (AKA The Arizonans. It was a dark and stormy night. Cotton farmer Elisha Knight tells the story of his family, from their arrival in Phoenix in 1900, through wars and tragedy with tequila-laced comic relief, up until the opening of the Aqueduct in 1993.)
The Tragic Fall of Barrington Hall. Unpublished mss., unfinished. (Take two-hundred college students at the University of California, Berkeley. Teach them radical politics and enticing sexual positions. Season liberally with every type of drug available to man. Lock them in a dirty, roach-infested apartment building from the turn of the century. Sit back and enjoy.) This building was closed in 1990; my rebuttal to a management attack on our stewardship of the largest cooperative student housing in the United States should be educational.
Of course, I know a few writers up close and personal. Take a ride to Paris, for example, and enjoy the scenery in Nicolas Richard's Week-End en Couple. Or take a thrill ride with Mark London Williams' Danger Boy. David Del Valle will be happy to camp it up at Camp David, and Rob Roberge will gladly beat him black and blue for doing it.
Among my other favorite writers is the late, great Philip Kindred Dick. Click on the picture to transport yourself to a dimension created for him by another loving fan.
I am also much enamoured of the late J.G. Ballard. He wrote the blistering High-Rise and the sexy Crash, both charming accounts of late 20th-Century life; he also survived a remarkable period of imprisonment and scavenging during his adolescence in Shanghai, China, as described in Empire of the Sun.
Yet another favorite writer of mine was Jan Kerouac, daughter of the Beat writer; her own autobiographical books Baby Driver and Trainsong are two of the best adventures on the wild edge as anything ever writ.