about me

I studied political theory at Boise State and graduated from The George Washington University Law School in 2004. Academic wanderings aside, I’m a native of Las Vegas. The Mojave Desert and the characters who have tried to tame it provided a natural background for The Valley of Fire, which I wrote for an audience with a lust for life and an appreciation for the humor in our inability to explain it. Also, my day job as an attorney representing big drug companies turned out to be surprisingly boring.

The Valley of Fire is as an irreverent allegory in the same general vein as: Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Moore’s Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, and the Pratchett and Gaiman collaboration Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

favourite books

1984, Huckleberry Finn, Catch 22, Kockroach, Oryx and Crake, The Trial, Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, Slapstick, Galapagos, Roughing It, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, The Master and Margarita, Fight Club, Blind Assassin, The Eyre Affair, The Fourth Bear, Red Dwarf, The Martian Chronicles, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

my websites

http://thevalleyoffire.web.officelive.com/default.