Friday, December 20, 2024
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Mummy News
We were watching a TV episode of Hart to Hart from 1981 called “Murder Wrap” and I discovered it’s a spoof of my 1970s detective novel JONES JR. What an honor!
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Friday, December 13, 2024
2024 Good Deed Rain
A scene from the latest novel, FLOP. This is my real-life art exhibition that lasted for two minutes last summer. Good Deed Rain published 4 novels during 2024: HOLOGRAMS FROM MARS, THE BELATEDS, JONES JR., FLOP. They’re great! Put on your reading glasses and find out! So far I have 2 more novels ready for 2025 so stay tuned!
2024 #1
HOLOGRAMS FROM MARS. A melting wax museum. An unsuccessful Martian. Postum product placement. A robot landmark. Joan Crawford and Don Knotts. A wolf at the zoo. A windup mouse on the cement. The multiple dimensions of reincarnation. Searchlights on Jupiter Hill.
2024 #2
THE BELATEDS. When I worked at a comic book warehouse, Michael told me he saw the Beatles downtown in 1964. This novel takes place in four different Seattles, all related to that event. A tenement house with a mysterious stranger—Mike drives to the ocean with his cat—a father looks for tickets for his daughter—a girl carries a breadloaf and rides a horse under the monorail—The Belateds play on top of the house.
2024 #3
JONES JR. This is how a novel would appear as a TV show in the 1970s. A bicycling detective. Shoe shining. Another world called Avalon you can’t resist. A seedy apartment. A mummy escapes from the museum. Flying over the Pacific Ocean beach in a garbage can.
2024 #4
FLOP. A novel about how not to care for a seal. Featuring an artist who lives on a rooftop with pterodactyls. Amelia Earhart makes a cameo appearance. Or does she? Bees have taken over the gallery’s second floor. A gameshow and a gangster. A whale for a taxicab.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Monday, December 9, 2024
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
FLOP SYNOPSIS
FLOP! While housesitting for a movie star, Oscar Morris loses a beloved pet seal. Meanwhile, The B Minus Gallery presents his timeless art exhibition, which attracts a vengeful clone. Battling pterodactyls and time travel frauds, our hero must outwit seal rustlers and a gangster on the briny sea. Illustrated by the author, this novel of humor and fantasy is another poetic adventure for all ages. It comes in unique soft cover and hardbound editions. Available for order December 12 Enjoy!
FLOP
Here's the cover spread (back, spine, front) for next book, FLOP. Rob Millis helped me with this, and came up with the great idea of the title tripping on spine.
Monday, December 2, 2024
Friday, November 29, 2024
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
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.
Monday, November 18, 2024
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.
Sunday, November 17, 2024
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:
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024
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