“Fans of SF thrillers will enjoy this colorful high-tech mystery and its echoes of the present-day hunger for likes, favorites, and going viral.”
"Sci-fi fans will want to read this story of #SocialMediaDystopianism before it becomes a reality."
“Hugely engaging, strange, dangerous and quite unlike anything you’ve read before. Original, techno-paranoid sci-fi at its finest.”
“Fans of SF thrillers will enjoy this colorful high-tech mystery and its echoes of the present-day hunger for likes, favorites, and going viral.”
"Sci-fi fans will want to read this story of #SocialMediaDystopianism before it becomes a reality."
“Hugely engaging, strange, dangerous and quite unlike anything you’ve read before. Original, techno-paranoid sci-fi at its finest.”
I am an American writer based in Mallorca, Spain. Before turning to fiction full-time, I spent years inside the digital media machine in Los Angeles, seeing firsthand how attention is engineered. Experiences in this world opened my eyes to the potential misuse of this technology. You can read about some of my experiences (and how they shaped Neon Empire): Generation #Ad, Engines of Polarization and We're All in a Tabloid Now.
My fiction has appeared in 3AM Magazine, Word Riot, and Litro Magazine, among others. In an earlier life in Barcelona and Paris, I wrote a fictional crime column for Spanish weekly newspapers.
Neon Empire (California Coldblood Books, 2019)
In a state-of-the-art city where social media drives every aspect of the economy, a has-been Hollywood director and an investigative journalist race to uncover the relationship between a rising tide of violence and corporate corruption.
Nomad X (Atropos, 2012)
2003. Paris, Berlin, Barcelona & London. Neocon hysteria is pushing us to the brink of war. Unrest spreads across Europe. A mysterious guerrilla artist is subverting the masses.
Barcelona: City of Crime (Various, 2011)
Barcelona. A city famed for its beauty, feared for its legendary thieves. Larry Kovaks is the city's premier tourist detective. 19 real cases of fraud and deceit against tourists. 19 thrilling stories of bare-knuckled justice brought to the city on the Med by the one and only Larry Kovaks.
Bedroom Revolutionaries (out of print)
That's a wrap. My next book, Celine, is finished. While Neon Empire was concerned with spectacle, this one turns inward and explores what happens when we surrender the autonomy of our minds.
A disgraced tech mogul uses an illicit neural implant to build a private island cult and reclaim her empire—but the system she’s running is turning on her, and the journalist she recruits to document her rise may be the one variable that unravels her.
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