Category: Writing
Book Trailer – The Esmeralda Goodbye
The Esmeralda Goodbye now has a book trailer. It’s big and thrillery and I think it does a pretty good job previewing the book. What do you think? Trigger warning: This video contains a depiction of a man …
La Jolla’s Fancy Cowboy Hotel
Last month I talked about how writer Raymond Chandler’s time in La Jolla in the 1950s inspired my upcoming novel, The Esmeralda Goodbye. Another inspiration for the book was the Hotel Del Charro, which was located in the …
Chandler Agonistes
“Officer Jake Stirling parked his patrol car near the sharp curve on Camino de la Costa, glanced at the house across the street and wondered if the man inside had killed himself yet.” The Esmeralda Goodbye So goes …
A Beatle’s Guitar in San Diego
You remember Intravaia’s buddy, right—they found out he’d been playing John Lennon’s guitar for the last forty years?” Gillespie Field Groove, Chapter 3:The Mostly When I started writing Gillespie Field Groove, I knew the plot would center around …
A Song called Someday
What’s the easiest way to make one of your old songs a big hit? Make it a fictional hit. That’s what I’ve done in the new Rolly Waters mystery, Gillespie Field Groove, in which the fictional country-pop star …