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Hello, Readers,

My latest novel, Hard Exit, is the most personal of the five I've written. I've lived with the story and various drafts for decades. The story takes place in Malibu and south Los Angeles and is narrated by depressed private eye Jack Drake, who lives in a Malibu beach mansion with movie star Amanda Bigelow.

He's endured traumas and suffered significant losses. He's muddled through years of grief and stasis, but then Game, an at-risk sixteen-year-old, changes Jack's perspective. The two of them become friends, then try to solve a series of murders in Malibu and south Los Angeles.

Unlike the Hadley novels, Hard Exit isn't a cozy mystery. It contains cursing, a sex scene, and some violence. However, fists don't fly every twenty
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How many words per day and per week are enough to make novelists feel that they're being productive?

How many words per day and per week can we write and still be sure that any of our sentences, let alone all of them, are effective, moving, or beautiful?

Each novelist differs in temperament, talent, and stamina. And our goals differ as well—from writing for ourselves to aspiring to sell as many no Read more of this blog post »
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