Thank you for checking out my books, which are available in different formats below. Enjoy!

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NIGHTBOOK

Smith Bay High senior Auckland Young is watching his life fall apart. His father’s small church is failing and his family is about to lose everything they own. Desperate to escape eviction Auckland turns a teacher’s casual offer of extra credit into an obsessive science project with the potential to make millions. Through trial and error and with the help of his younger sister, two runaway musicians, his school’s rebellious drug-dealing surf king, an exchange student from Bali and a Muslim refugee, Auckland creates Nightbook—a new technology that has the power to create lucid and life-changing dreams.

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BOY HOUSE

A dark comedy that mixes the terrors of dating after divorce, an insanely stressful job, a passion for art, single fatherhood and friendship into a cocktail that could be named “The Life at Forty”.
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YOUTH, BEAUTY AND CRASHING INNOCENCE MEET ROCK’N ROLL

When my daughter was 15 I played her some Led Zepplin.  She was quiet for a while and then she said, “Dad, I think I understand what my generation missed out on.” This is a marinated-in-music coming-of-age tale set in New Zealand and Southern California.
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KILL THE BUDDHA

A murder mystery set in a Zen monastery in the gold country of the Sierra Nevada mountains.  Monks, gold, mountain bars and county sheriffs meet Zen masters, lesbians and new age refugees hiding out from the corporate world.

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KING OF THE MOUNTAIN

Eighteen year old King has been in and out of high school and in and out of town ever since his mother’s nervous breakdown. When his girlfriend Jana commits suicide he flees again to escape his feelings about her death. The journey takes him to a ski town and a job in a truck-stop cafe run by Maggie, a hard woman who has suffered similar losses of her own. King meets a new girl, Sunny, and begins to carve out a life for himself by becoming one of the best skiers on the mountain. But he can’t escape his past and his dangerous skiing brings him into conflict with Denny, the head of the Ski Patrol and Sunny’s ex-boyfriend. Once more King turns to flee from his problems–but this time Maggie stands in his way and escape is not so easy.

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FINAL CHARGE TO THE END ZONE OF CHOAS

A high school drama teacher takes over the school football coaching duties and against all odds rallies the school spirit and forges personal redemptions in the ultimate 90’s high school drama.

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MAD AS THE MIST

An autobiographical tour through U.C. Santa Cruz in the late 1970s.

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SHORT STORIES

STORIES FOR GREEBO

Mad, crazy stories gathered from the folds of the Forster clan for my ex-brother in-law and now old friend, Greebo.  A man who loves a good tale.

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LOUSY MESSIAH

A lost youth with a Jesus complex  meets group therapy and juvenile delinquents.

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BIRDS & BEASTS

True animal stories collected from years of back pack trips,river  rafting trips, teaching high school and living life.

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DYNAMITE ANGELS

A collection of short stories.  Several have been published in literary journals or won contests.

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PUBLIC CHICKEN

A true tale of the amazing Brett Brooks, his five youthful pals, a giant snow storm and No-House Lynch wrecking his father’s prized vintage Buick.

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POETRY

MY NAME & OTHER FOOLISHNESS

I see mad men in the desert Fighting angels, wrestling goats, throwing rocks at the moon. One stops to hunch over a fresh papyrus, scribbles a line, throws his words into the flames and parties on.
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THE FLYING

“No Daddy,” my daughter told me sternly when she was five and disapproved of the tale I was spinning. “It has to be a story about two fairies who don’t like each other at first and then become best friends.” Her demand gave birth to The Flying. Growing up and finding her place in a the fairy world of shimmering beauty and powerful magic is hard enough for Mousebite, but it gets a thousand times harder when her new best friend, Firebite, a wild reckless rebel who never knows when to stop, plays one trick too many and draws terrible evil into their forest.
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SPIRITUAL/YOGA

THE TEN TEACHERS

Experiences and reflections on big-picture turning point moments in life.

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THE BOOK OF DREAMS

Come and enter the magic world of dreams. I think at times dreams are messages from our subconscious, and at other times I believe we actually visit other planes, realms or bardos. I don’t have any final theory, but I do think they are central to our life/soul journeys as humans.

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YOGA JOURNEY

A guidebook through 20 years of yoga practices and experiences.

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