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Craig Faustus Buck

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Craig Faustus Buck is an L.A.-based journalist, nonfiction book author, TV writer-producer, screenwriter, short-story writer and novelist.

His first noir mystery novel, Go Down Hard, was published by Brash Books in 2015

His short stories have won a Macavity Award and been nominated for multiple Anthony and Derringer awards.

Among his six nonfiction books, two were #1 NYT bestsellers. He wrote the Oscar-nominated short film Overnight Sensation. He was one of the writers on the seminal miniseries V: The Final Battle.

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	Occupied Earth: Stories of Aliens, Resistance and Survival at all Costs by Gary Phillips (Editor), Richard Brewer (Editor), Rachel Howzell Hall (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Go Down Hard 4.10 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead End 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psycho Logic 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We've Been Trumped! by Craig Faustus Buck (Goodreads Author), JoAnne Lucas, Michael Guilliebeau 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ina Gada Haggadah 2022 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pulp Modern: Number Ten by Craig Faustus Buck (Goodreads Author), Preston Lang (Goodreads Author), Albert Tucher it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead End / Psycho Logic: The Anthony Award nominated short story and the novella it spawned 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Betrayal of Innocence: Incest and Its Devastation; Revised Edition by Susan Forward (1988-09-01) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put in this world to rise above.”
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As an experiment, I put a short novella up onKindle-Vella, Amazon's new short-form fiction platform, called The Assassin's Egg. Not much action, so far, but good feedback from those few who've stumbled onto it. If you want to check it out, the first three chapters are free!

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