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PUBLISHED: Apr.24.2013

Beautiful Lies

Darren Elmore has it all: beautiful wife, status, profitable vineyards and winery in Sonoma County. But it isn't enough. He has always wanted--needed--to know what it is like to kill a man. So Darren chooses an unknown victim on a lonely road and indulges in a thrill-kill. And he gets away with murder. Until a blackmailer shows up. Then Darren's own life and...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.30.2011

The Smartest Kid in Petaluma

The smartest kid in Petaluma never thought seventh grade would be like this! When Norman Babbit skipped a grade and entered junior high a year early he thought his life would be great. But the school bully forces Norman to do his homework, his younger sister is a brat, his English teacher hates him, his older brother is trying to fill in for their deceased father, and his...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.02.2011

Teenaged Pussies From Outer Space: A Love Story

Teenaged Pussies From Outer Space: A Love Story is about life, love, beer, women's rights, Mount Rushmore, immortality and the three cutest little space invaders since E.T.

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PUBLISHED: Jul.07.2011

Grandma Hazel's Funny, Funny Kidz Jokebook (WARNING: Contains No Stupid Knock-Knock Jokes or Dumb Pictures to Take Up Space)

In fourth grade I bought a dinosaur joke book from Scholastic Book Services. I anticipated its arrival. When delivered the slim volume was 40 pages and contained about 65 jokes. Stupid jokes. Knock-knock jokes. With pictures! "Grandma Hazel's Funny, Funny Kidz Jokebook (WARNING: Contains No Stupid Knock-Knock Jokes or Dumb Pictures to Take Up Space)" was written to ensure...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.07.2011

A Man Walks Into a Bar....A Compendium of Filthy, Uncouth, Lewd, Lusty and Lascivious Jokes

The weekly poker game was at Bob’s but he had to baby sit his six year old twin boys. Before they could even deal Bob was off to the other room three times. He returned and another racket ensued. So Randy said, “I’ll take care of it.” Randy returned and there was silence for an hour. Bob said, “What’d you do, start a movie?” “No,” said Randy, “I taught them how to masturbate...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.04.2011

Tantric Zoo: A Bud Warhol Mystery

TANTRIC ZOO begins at a couples retreat in 1987. Amid the cavorting and indulging and groping and exploring one of the campers ends up dead. The surviving campers bury the body and return to their lives. Until 2008 when the body is discovered and forensic antropologist Bud Warhol tracks the campers down. Bud finds the murderer but also discovers how two decades of guilt has altered...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.05.2006

A Man Walks Into a Bar....A Compendium of Filthy, Uncouth, Lewd, Lusty, and Lascivious Jokes

A MAN WALKS INTO A BAR...is the result of 20 years of research. It is, quite simply, the definitive single-volume collection of modern American adult humor. 700 pages.

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PUBLISHED: Mar.10.2006

Norman Babbit, Scientist

Norman Babbit never thought seventh grade would be like this! When Norman skipped a grade and entered junior high a year early he thought his life would be great. But the school bully forces Norman to do his homework, his younger sister is a brat, his English teacher hates him, his older brother is trying to fill in for his deceased father, and his mother thinks all Norman's...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.01.2003

High Steaks

Winner of the Mystery Novel Award. . . Davis O'Kane thought his fall from grace had reached its lowest point, with an impending divorce and a custody battle for his twin daughters, but then he finds a dead body in his restaurant, and his world sinks as deep as a Uranium pit in the high desert of Nightingale, Nevada. Nightingale is a place where high stakes gamblers and rednecks...

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Feb.06.2013 - 1:13 am

The Next Big Thing Blog Hop

The Next Big Thing Blog Hop is a viral campaign to help bring awareness to writers and their works in progress and hopefully guide new fans to their work. My friend Linda McCabe...

Dec.10.2012 - 1:39 am

Blog# 39: How the Angel Got on Top of the Xmas Tree

It had been a bad year for Santa. The elves were on strike, there was no snow, the reindeer were more interested...

Nov.28.2012 - 7:36 pm

Blogpost #35 "A Republican Fable"

A REPUBLICAN FABLE “Mother,” said fourth-grade Johnny, “may I please have five-dollars to buy some candy?” ...

May.06.2012 - 5:09 pm

Stop! Stop! Stop!

STOP! STOP! STOP! (This blog is the text of a speech given as part of a panel discussion on ebooks for the California Writers’ Club Redwood Chapter’s “Next Step” Conference, April...

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Oct.02.2011 - 12:49 am

In response to: Adventures of an e-Book Bookie, 21 "Some Writer Jokes"

Thanks Dolores. Be careful

Thanks Dolores. Be careful with the one about the bear! Rob

Sep.03.2011 - 12:01 pm

In response to: Kill the first novel? Are you INSANE?

self-publishing and self-promoting

Hiya Kris, Wednesday morning last week I read a thoughtful (and just mildly self-promoting) blog about...

Aug.29.2011 - 12:45 am

In response to: On writing from a novel-to-screenplay

Novel-to-Screenplay

Good post. Check out my experience with novel-to-screenplay (and elimintaing words) in my Redroom Blog: "...

Aug.27.2009 - 11:20 am

In response to: Homer Simpson and the Art of Proofreading

Homer...

Hi Nancy, Thanks for your comments. In addition to writing novels I also have a career as a failed screenwriter.(Ha!)...

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Pandora's Big Box

Short Story: A Perfect Day

Essay: WALKING WINDSOR: TWO BICYCLES

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May.19.2013

Beautiful Lies

Published by Amazon Review

I definitely enjoyed this book. It's a great story, one that explores the dark side of "normal" people who might think about doing something "wrong" but never act on it...until...

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Winner of the 2002 New Mystery Award for High Steaks 23 books in print. 200+ articles published in national magazines. 8 children and 12 grandchildren. Avid runner, lives happily and quietly with wife Penny in Windsor, CA

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