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Monday, July 30, 2018

Why do my characters boss me around?

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No Peace starts at   del Monte Hotel in Monterey (photo circa 1880s) In a previous post I wrote that I had started the next Steve Dan...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Is there life east of Pacific Coast Highway?

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My wife and I are about to return to Omaha from San Diego. Darn, where did the time go? I’m going to miss friends and family, surfing...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Cowboys are cool. Cows, not so much

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“A mine is a hole in the ground, owned by a liar.” Mark Twain I recently saw a college friend for the first time in decades. He see...
Monday, July 9, 2018

Return to The Scene of My Crime

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What happens when a relentless downpour, politics, and street gangs attack California? I recently arrived back in California, a s...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Is a Gift Card an Appropriate Gift?

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My kids called to find out what I wanted for Father’s Day. When I asked for a gift card from Amazon, they said that would be impersonal....
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Excerpt from Deluge, A Disaster Novel

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Greg Evarts and Patricia Baldwin are back and this time they only need to save the state of California. Here's an excerpt from ...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Deluge—New Release Now Available

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Natural disaster, street gangs and political inertia … but that isn’t the scary part. Deluge is now available in print and Kindle. This...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

New James D. Best Novel on June 4th!

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In 1862, a sixty-five day downpour pummeled the western United States. California suffered the brunt of the storm. Almost a third of ...