Fieldwork
WHO’S DRIVING THIS TRAIN?
January 6 ’10My favorite character from Point Dume, Felix Duarte, has hijacked my next novel and I’ve been taken hostage by a new theme.
IT IS HARD TO SAY GOODBYE
December 7 ’09PUTTING YOUR CHARACTERS TO BED SO THAT YOU CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT BOOK
MAN DOWN: FIELDWORK DISASTERS
November 5 ’09My weekend in the hyperbaric chamber and other misadventures. The life of a writer can be treacherous a thing.
POINT DUME has a Cover and it’s Great
October 29 ’09The new cover for Point Dume is finished. It was designed by David Shoemaker and it is the perfect image for this novel.
The Challenges of Having Sexually Active Characters
October 6 ’09The Challenges of Having Sexually Active Characters: Advice for Fiction Writers
The Perils of Fieldwork
September 28 ’09Marijuana is an important element in my new novel “Point Dume”. I’ve written on this website about hiking into the cartel grow sites and breaking down the infrastructure of the camps. I’ve preached about environmental devastation. I’ve discussed the various hybrid plants that are being developed. But I haven’t said much about my direct and [...]
National Media and Marijuana Grow-sites
August 22 ’09National media finally focuses on cartel activity on our public lands
Current Random Fieldwork
July 30 ’09I have done a lot of research on all my novels. In preparation for the last three books I administered injections to bodybuilders, hung out in a polygamist compound and hiked into active marijuana grow-sites. I call it fieldwork. I like to throw myself into the worlds that I write about and soak up as [...]
Point Dume
July 29 ’09I just finished my new novel “Point Dume” which will be published in May by Overlook Press. Prominent themes include the death of surf culture, human traffiking, the Mexican drug cartel, illegal pot farms on public lands, environmental devastation, and obsessive love. On July 17 law enforcement discovered 3,500 pot plants in the Malibu mountains. [...]
