page 36-37 spread

Here's another sneak preview of the next Good Deed Rain book, to be published soon.

nessie

Swans going south. Funny, I was just outside and 13 of them went overhead low but I didn't have my camera! Just like seeing Nessie.

meanwhile

Meanwhile in California, another sunny day begins. I wonder if Vincent Price ever delivered newspapers to that Tudor style house on the right, pausing on his bicycle.

factory

Now that the grueling publicity tour for JONES JR. is over and I’m back from Hollywood and Rockefeller Center, I’m getting the next novel ready for publication, here’s page 30:

land tide

dog

with

stick

snowgeese

heading

south

faucet

A week of rain spilling down the hill

Flying Mummy

Aaron's drawing for JONES JR. novel

recovering

I started rereading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. The library only has the gruesome new edition. What a difference from the original artwork. There's a whole other story there.

California sky

I asked our son for a California sky

A Hundred Dreams Ago

sleepwalking

Aaron Gunderson (Good Deed Rain house artist) drew this great picture for A Hundred Dreams Ago. It’s Donald Sleep, a notorious Seattle character who used to sleepwalk to people’s houses, carrying horrible records to play.

dawn

sky

disguise

The woods yesterday, wearing Transylvania costume

p.160-161 page spread

Another look inside JONES JR. This is when he's flying back from the grocery. If you ever saw that 60s Dick Tracy Show cartoon, you'll know where Jones got his flying garbage can from.

peter

pharoah

ginkgo leaves today

p.58/59 page spread

Here's a look into JONES JR. This is a conversation in the trailer between Jones and his robot companion, Roscoe...

poetry and adventure

JONES JR. is a 1970s-style TV detective like Cannon. He lives in the Rockford seaside trailer. The novel follows him as he tries to unravel two mysteries: a mummy, and another world called Avalon. Plenty of poetry and adventure. The novel is being adapted as a teleplay by executives at the ABC network to be shown on Mondays at 9PM, before Hart to Hart.

Jones Chapters

The chapters for new JONES JR. novel. They should resemble Columbo titles.

Jones Chapters

The chapters for new JONES JR. novel. They should resemble Columbo titles.

panacea

The newest novel JONES JR. is published.

jim

Yesterday morning and today, swans flew low overhead going north. Beautiful! Both times, my nature cameraman Jim was unable to get a photo. We’ll keep trying.

the good earth

birds over driveway

birds over driveway

Mark of the Vampire

all/all

hollywood star

"Mashed potatoes? Really?" She's one of the good ones!

flying south

flying south

book in the black

There's a copy of Heaven Antenna in the free box this early morning, glooming in the Titanic dark.

a curious twig

A curious twig I found on the steps at work, identical in size to a bird's claw!

Halloween crime scene

Bela Lugosi in Cairo

mailing a mummy

the lurker

Look what I found lurking at work, one of Earth's great inventions.

walking home from work yesterday

Free Hi-Fi

Another free book in the street box. (I don’t know where else to bring them) I really want to open an old-style French cafe with a giant urn of coffee for a dollar, a big oven making bread, wooden tables, old beatniks, dimestore philosophers, artists and escapees from tyranny! We need places like that. When I was in highschool, The Last Exit in the U-District was like that. JGenius has already signed on, promising to get a big neon sign for the window in those great old orange and green colors that reads "Free Hi-Fi."