I will be featured in this year’s Author Launch Party, sponsored by the Redwood Writer’s chapter of the California Writer’s Group. I will be reading from my first published novel, Apocalyptic Lullaby; Episode One of the Killshot Diaries. Signed copies will be available to the public, along with information on upcoming releases. The event will take place at the Finley Center in Santa Rosa, CA, on Saturday, May 17, from 10:30am-2pm.
Here I stand (sit, actually) at the beginning of launching the first book of the first series of my new ‘second-act’ career as a storyteller. Up till recently, I have only told stories through imagery, as an illustrator. It’s not too surprising, I assume, to hear that it has been those very images that have inspired the written-word stories I now prepare for perusal by the world at large. I had never really given it much thought, all through my 50-year career as an artist and designer, that my habit of imagining the backstory of my illustrations, after their creation, might have actual value. Beyond my own personal time-wasting amusement, that is. But, here I am, with 20-something raw, first-draft novels (and counting) preparing my favorite story arc for mainstream publication. The heroine of the Killshot Diaries Collection began as a scribble on a 2-inch Post-it note, at three in
