About
A veteran radio personality (CBS, NPR, syndication, etc.), money manager and general aviation pilot, my on-stage role in dozens of Southern California rock festivals and public events is part of two forthcoming documentary films, 'KGB and the FM Radio Revolution' and 'See You at San Diego' about the origins of Comic-Con. The radio persona side of me appears in the DreamWorks motion picture, Almost Famous. I’ve written a popular investment book for John Wiley & Sons, a series of columns published in Forbes.com, and two short climate fiction stories, A Virus, and Demon Rock (Kristell Ink, UK). The creative output of a four-year research doctorate I completed this year, is a commercial novel of speculative fiction called, Salton Sea Tales, inspired by actual events.
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Salton Sea Tales, inspired by actual events
Salton Sea Tales is a 70,000-word plot-driven eco-thriller partially inspired by true events, with a wildly plausible ending that new research suggests might actually happen. Squatters live off the grid in abandoned homes on the shores of the Salton Sea. In the middle of all this is a woman who runs a powerful drug cartel. Desperate to rise above her criminal heritage, she funds legitimate businesses including lithium mining from the underground brine. All hell breaks loose when she agrees to finance construction of a hundred-mile canal that could reunite the dying Salton Sea with the Gulf of California.
