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I’ve spent the greatest part of my life as a writer and actor. Most of the acting was to make a living and raise my family. I have been a writer longer than I’m comfortable saying. I do it because it gives me joy, whether it’s playwriting, or in the last dozen years, writing books. Like a lot of people, I’m told, I threw away my first attempts at books—maybe two medium length novels. I hope readers come away from my stories knowing something they didn't know before, having been entertained, and wishing it didn't have to come to an end.

To see what I'm doing now, please visit www.ricklenz.com. Thanks!
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What I learned from Bret Easton Ellis

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At the age of fifty-three, I began spending most of my days writing. I had written about a dozen plays and three novels. A couple of the plays were okay, but the novels, were bad (“bad” is too kind).

But I kept at it. My acting career, which had come so easily for about thirty years, was not easy anymore.

My wife, Linda, ran into an old friend, Dale Ellis. She told Dale what I was doing, slogging aw

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