In 2024, my debut novel NAMASTE MART CONFIDENTIAL was released🍾🥂
Set in 2013, just on the eve of the woke apocalypse, its a detective story and dark comedy about two unlicensed p.i.’s who maintain their day jobs at a hippie grocery store in West Hollywood. Yes, the personalities of the two main characters are based on earlier, dumber versions of myself and my friend @Mikeydubbzz.
I remain profoundly grateful to my publisher,
@RunAmokCrime, and I was honored to see the book short listed by
@CriFiLover among so many excellent titles.
Also, it's still a total trip to see a blurb on the cover of my own book from
@EllroyReader, the Edgar-winning biographer of my hero, James Ellroy.
The promo tour was long for this one, and I’m grateful to all the people who had me on their various shows.
Getting to meet @lotus__point and do an episode of THE PERFUME NATIONALIST where we covered Norman Mailer’s THE NAKED AND THE DEAD was especially cool.
In July, I did a reading at
@BooksArtifact Encinitas with the Starlite Pulp crew. Artifact is an amazing bookstore that is uniquely welcoming to independent authors. Check them out.
Then, in November I went out to 29 Palms for the second 29 Palms Book Festival, where I read with the Starlite Pulp crew again, this time at an event called NOIR IN THE BONEYARD, which was held at a cemetery.
Earlier this month, my Covid-era crime story was released in issue #5 of STARLITE PULP REVIEW.
Looking forward to 2025. I’ll be finishing my next novel and who knows what else is just around the bend…