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As I mentioned shortly before the holidays, I spent much of 2018 working on the next book while moving my family to Whidbey Island, setting up our house, and getting my daughter up and running in school.

Just before the holidays, we had an extended power outage across the island (four days!). Fortunately, power was restored on Christmas Eve, but needless to say, it made progress on the book a bit tricky. Then came a series of snowstorms that didn’t want to end. If any of you live in the area, or...

Chokecherry Canyon is now available in paperback and ebook everywhere books are sold!

As I mentioned in my last post, my sixth book is set in Farmington, New Mexico, the Southwest town where I grew up. This is a lean, fast-paced thriller. I think it’s the perfect summer read!

Here are a few places you can order a copy:

Amazon (paperback)
Kindle
Barnes and Noble (paperback)
Nook
Kobo
iBooks

You can also order it from the independent bookstore of your choice. My personal favorites are R.J. Julia B...

*UPDATE* Chokecherry Canyon is out not now in paperback and ebook!

I’m excited to share a big announcement with you. My next book, Chokecherry Canyon, will be released in paperback and ebook on July 18th.

I’d like to tell you about the book’s title and origins.

I grew up in the Four Corners region of New Mexico, where the corners of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet on the map. Farmington has always been an oil and gas town, one whose fortunes rise and fall with those of the energy in...

The title Three Summers has been stuck in my head for several years now. I have some vague ideas about the plot and the characters. It will likely involve a father and son, and possibly a nuclear family. If you’ve read any of my books, you may have noticed that the families are never typical. That’s no accident. I’ve been circling them.

Whatever the plot and characters end up becoming, the book will definitely take place in three locations, covering either one summer in three settings, or thre...

            Grimwood University had two claims to fame. One was a man. The other, an event. And while the man, author and professor Alan Grimwood, wouldn’t live to see the benefits of his own notoriety, he did bear witness to the tragedy that would forever sear his family’s name, and the college they founded, into the minds of Americans everywhere.

One year after the Attica Prison riot forever connected the name of that infamous correctional facility with the community in which it was located, t...

It struck Braden that there was something old fashioned about Professor Price. He seemed to dress and behave in a manner more in keeping with men in the 1950s or 60s. Braden recognized the look, because it was the way his grandfather and his friends had all dressed well into their later years. A tailored black suit, emerald-green tie, thin moustache, hair combed straight back. Braden had pegged Price as being close to 60, but once he began to speak, his exact age was harder to pin down. While hi...

Three years ago, I mentioned the big one. I said I’d have more to say about that soon. For me, I guess soon is three years. After Seattle On Ice, I wrote the follow-up, Bloody Pulp. Then I revised Rosé in Saint Tropez  (my little romance set on the French Riviera), and wrote another book called White Russian. Neither of those will likely be released before the current project, which is actually four separate novels that together make up one massive story. So I guess the big one is actually four ...

If you’ve read any of my books or screenplays, or if you happen to know me from waaaaay back when and have seen the amateur movies I made with my friends back in high school, then you’ve probably noticed that some of the character names pop up again and again from one project to the next. I do this for fun, but also out of a sort of odd superstition I guess. Making things a bit more confusing is the fact that while some of these characters are similar from one book to the next, many of them are ...

During my freshman year in high school, my guidance counselor left a message on our family’s answering machine telling my mother she was concerned I might be “living on the edge of a fantasy world.”

So far as I can tell, the only reason she suspected this was because I’d told her I wanted to go to film school and eventually make movies.

First of all, at age 14, shouldn’t we all be living in fantasy worlds? Second, what’s so crazy about aiming for the career of your dreams? Most of our role m...