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I always post excerpts from my novels on my blog. Here is a list of one excerpt from all eight of my novels and my two books series.<\/p>\n

Try before you buy. Read a sample before deciding to buy a book. Find out what you’re in for!<\/p>\n

Gutter Folklore<\/h5>\n

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My first ever novel. A collection of short stories in the city of San Francisco! Follow a gang of crazy punks and offset urban types who are forced to live in the same house because they cannot afford $5,000 a week in rent for a single studio. In this excerpt, a junky finds an old craving and acts on it!<\/p>\n

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The Falling Circle<\/h5>\n

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My second ever book, this one will tell you what it’s like to be a gutter punk. Not just about the hardships of being poor, but how weird it is to be poor! Cramped houses, crazy roommates, and living life on the urban edge.<\/p>\n

IN this excerpt, my main character Preston has an interesting conversation with one of his roommates about talking genitals!<\/p>\n

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The Clubber<\/h5>\n

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My anti-hero novel set in the San Francisco clubbing world of the Eighties. A self-absorbed artist is forced to confront his true self as he tries to become a rising star in the alt-underground art world.<\/p>\n

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Crash Shadow<\/h5>\n

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My book about drug addiction, about two people: one trying to get clean and sober and another sinking deeper and deeper into her addiction. Two characters who used to be a couple try to navigate their drug-centered lives in the concrete jungle.<\/p>\n

This is basically two books, as it follows the two stories.<\/p>\n

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What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko?<\/h5>\n

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My punk road trip novel, and my best selling book. This is Skye Wright’s first novel as an exclusive main character. A ride up and down the West coast as Skye searches for her long-lost boyfriend Yuri while traversing dives, underground clubs, squats, and sex worker parties.<\/p>\n

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Stella Maris<\/h5>\n

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The sequel to What the Hell, even though it can be read as a stand alone book. Skye Wright, punk and party animal extraordinaire, faces the crossroads of her life as she turns the big three-oh. and an overheard song reminds her of a long-lost friend. Pagan weddings and fever-dream raves!<\/p>\n

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A Long Slow Aftermath<\/h5>\n

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Another work about my main character Preston, the star of The Falling Circle. In this story, Preston is just out of rehab, trying to adjust to a world without the gauze of drugs and alcohol. He tries to make his way in a quickly gentrifying Oakland, California, caught between the working class and the upper crust techies pushing everyone out.<\/p>\n

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The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright<\/h5>\n

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This two book series features, once again, my main character Skye Wright. Riding high while working at a prestigious alt-music studio, her life takes a sudden and sharp downturn, casting her back into the world of urban chaos. She tries to find her solace and her salvation, not in looking towards any possible future, but reaching back into her chaotic punk past to try and find her way again.<\/p>\n

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Blood, Skin, and Ink<\/h5>\n

Six feet tall, covered in tattoos and scars, a beautiful and imposing woman with a hundred yard stare. There is no way you could not notice her, and you will wonder who she is and what her story is. That’s what this book is about. A sex worker, a teenage runaway, a musician, an alcoholic and drug addict… few have lived the live of tumult and chaos that Miranda has known. A true woman of the world.<\/p>\n

Miranda Scholl was a major supporting character in A long Slow Aftermath and the Rise and Fall of Skye Wright, but her character and her background story just grew to the point where I had to write a book for just her. Moving from the present day to her life as a teenage runaway, the life of this devil girl is laid out.<\/p>\n

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You can find all of my books at this link:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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