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It's been a while since my last update but a good chunk of last year was spent making some major life changes. I sold my house in the Hollywood Hills and moved to a really cool high rise in downtown Los Angeles. I also bought a place in Palm Springs that inspires me and keeps me focused more on my writing. I did a bit of traveling to get the creative juices flowing and visited Buenos Aires, London, Vienna, Prague, Barcelona, Madrid, and Frankfurt, and just got home from an amazing tour through Brazil including Sao Paulo, Curitiba and a fantastic beach town called Sao Francisco do Sul on the Southern Coast. So now it's time to get serious about writing again.

The most exciting development is the upcoming release of my very first graphic novel Celebrity Zombie Killers. It's being described as a mash-up of 28 Days Later and MTV's The Hills. I had a ball creating and writing it, and the artist, Mikhail Drujic, has done an amazing job of bringing the characters to life. Chapter One is currently available to download for free at iTunes, and the remaining three chapters can be purchased for $1.99. The book will be released on March 29, 2010 and can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.com. Also be sure to check out my first interview for the project at ComicMonsters.com. There will be more to come along with a mini-college book tour later this spring.

In other project news, I am developing some new TV pilot ideas for both prime time and for the kids market, and will finally be finishing my next novel this year. It's called Satan Place, but I'm keeping the premise under wraps for now. There is also some movement on The Actor's Guide to Murder movie so keep fingers crossed. As for Fingerprints & Facelifts - The Movie, the project fell through the cracks during a network regime change, but my producer Karen Glass and I are currently looking for a new home for the script, and we already have a few possibilities. It's my goal to get that one made somewhere. I'm also writing a new comedy suspense thriller that can be shot on a shoe string budget, which I'm hoping to film with Joe Dietl, the same director attached to the Actor's Guide movie, helming either later this year or in 2011.

As for the next books in the Jarrod Jarvis and LA Dolls series, those unfortunately are on hold for now. But I'm hoping to get back to their adventures in the very near future, and I still intend on writing another Actor's Guide, which will be offered exclusively to visitors of this site.

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