
I read a lot of books and I watch a lot of movies. And because I create stories, I spend a lot of time thinking about the ways books and movies tell stories. The ways they are different, the ways they can be the same. I’ve...
Last week, I was interviewed by the incomparable Dr. Mary for her radio show on KUCI, The OC View. During her weekly broadcast, Dr. Mary discusses all things Orange County, attempting to dispel stereotypical views of life here behind the Orange Curtain, and interviewing a sample of residents from our varied and accomplished...

These days, when I’m not consumed with the business-y tasks of having a book published, or writing short pieces, or reading, or obsessively editing my most recently finished novel, or indulging in other human tasks like eating,...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka