New news:

The site has been updated! Yay! It turns out that there were a number of new sellers listing copies of Bedford, MLSASS, and Radar Dog, as well as new reviews, and some new postings around the web. Everything I could find has been linked, so cruise around a bit and see what's new.

and, as noted before, my second novel, Journals From the Time of the Radar Dog, was just recently published by BlazeVOX Books and I'm busy trying to get it read and reviewed.

all the info on the book is available on this subsite: bedfordnovel.com/radardog.htm.

a little about it now: the book claims to be the journals of a stark-raving sentimentalist. a brutal friend, a tender monster. narrated, collected, edited, criticized by an indulgent, moralizing, narcissistic, cowardly, rationalizing academic (named you-know-what). it argues for the triumphs of self-pity and self-loathing, the persistence of voice, the dead-end (or dispersed [or forking] paths) of it all.

Radar Dog also represents an evolution of the style that pat forged in Bedford: vital, harried characters struggling with the complexities of emotional responsibility and the conflicting desire to live for themselves and for the present. it brings to life the sun-bleached streets of Los Angeles and the inexplicable magic of metaphor as the setting for the protagonist's efforts to save an innocent boy from the curse of his family, and the reciprocal need to save himself to do it.