Fault Lines: Stories by Northern California Crime Writers

by C.J. Verburg

Unknown Binding

About the author

San Francisco writer Carol (CJ) Verburg is an award-winning playwright, theater director, and author of best-selling books, including the international literature collections Ourselves Among Others and Making Contact.

Carol started her literary career before age one, telling stories to a rapt audience of stuffed animals. In her early teens she wrote her first novel and won her first playwriting award. At Mount Holyoke College she wrote the book and lyrics for the first rock musical, We Could Save the World. Since then she's worked as a cocktail waitress, newspaper proofreader, part-time boat-builder, and (for decades) an in-house and freelance trade and textbook editor and author in Boston and San Francisco.

Her Cory Goodwin mystery series includes Silent Night Violent Night, an hommage to the noir side of publishing, and Another Number for the Road, the first multimedia literary rock-&-roll novel.

For many years she ran theater companies on Cape Cod and lived up the road from the artist and author Edward Gorey. They became close friends and frequent collaborators, a symbiosis which inspired her lavishly illustrated 2024 artist's biography The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories, as well as her short multimedia ebook Edward Gorey On Stage, and her Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery series: Croaked, Zapped, and Shafted, or The Toastrack Enigma (plus a couple of stories).