Currently working on publication of two novels to follow up on
Employee of the Year.
The Voting Machine is another thriller starring Temo McCarthy, the hero of
Employee of the Year. It's set in Las Vegas during a Federal election campaign.
(It's roughly based on my experiences in Sin City working on Get Out the Vote volunteer drives for the Obama campaign during the summer and fall of 2008... without the bizarre murders and sinister conspiracies.)
Las Vegas is a great setting for a story and I am not talking about the glamorous hotels and luxury casinos, I am talking about the working-class neighborhoods outside the Strip.
The other book
The Fugitive Grandma is a dark comedy about the health care crisis: a boy and his grandma on the run from the law after they pull off a string of armed robberies for cash and prescription drugs. This is actually a manuscript I wrote four years ago that has just been sitting around, but my friends and family enjoyed the quirky story and I've been meaning to get it out there.
Published on July 28, 2012 07:00