Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?

A: Fell in love with stories when I was under three feet tall and probably fell in love with writing them not long after. But I didn’t get serious about writing fiction (trying to get published) till I was in my late 30s and my wife went on a fast—not knowing why—and while she was on it, the Spirit spoke to me very specifically

Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.

A: I write during my commute to and from my “real job” as a Supervising Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice, where I lead a team that investigates and prosecutes corporate fraud. Most recently, we have been pursuing the Wall Street players who created the toxic mortgage securities that triggered the Great Recession. When I’m not writing or lawyering, you can usually find

Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. I’ve been writing seriously since 2004. I had been making up stories for years before that, but that was the year I sent my first query letter and had the publisher ask for a synopsis and sample chapters. They ended up saying no to that story, but I was so encouraged and it pushed me to keep writing. In 2005 my dad took