Fieldwork
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. […]
The Wentworths
July 25 ’09One of the driving themes behind The Wentworths was the destructive and redemptive nature of family. Families are weird. And really, is there any familiar structure stranger than that of the fundamentalist Mormons? Seven wives, forty-seven children? I don’t think so. Over the course of two years, I visited the adjoined towns of Hildale and […]
Chemical Pink
July 14 ’09In researching Chemical Pink, it was very important to me that the drug details were absolutely accurate, so I consulted two leading experts in the field (who will remain anonymous for obvious reasons). Both of these men had taken women through training and drug programs similar to those of my main character, Aurora. I met […]
