Yours Truly . . . at age 21.

1986. Very little changes. I was thinking about stories, as usual. I had written my first Elwyn story and was working on a novel called the SIMPLE GENIUS, about a young man who was brilliant in all ways, except love. I had published my first piece: "Maggot Pit" (Miami Herald Halloween Contest, 1982, runner-up). I had changed my major from engineering to English.

All or Nothing

I wrote this one with my heart and soul. My brother Cameron was trying to tell me something, but I ignored it, My father was trying to tell me something, but I ignored it. I had to become a gambler myself in order to understand it. This book is a result of that understanding.

"M Gantry, the Hoochie Mama detective, sets Miami on fire in pursuit of the psychotic killer, the Dead Kisser!"

Number 3 on Mosaicbooks Hotbooks, 2002; Finalist for the Gold Pen Award; the MIAMI NEW TIMES "Your Top FIve" Best books about Miami selection, 2003.

"How Cindique Sanders-Lassiter lost her two virginities!"

The love scenes in this one are scorchers, the writing is sensational, and that's not even the best part. This book is funny, funny, funny.

"A Masterpiece! The most enjoyable collection of short prose ever written! The way short stories used to be!"

Winner of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Fiction; Award-Winning Stories from the Seattle Review; Crab Orchard Review; Asili; Drumvoices 2002.

Me at 41

Still at it