My goal is to blur the lines between literary and genre fiction.
My reading is eclectic, from Nabokov to Ruth Rendell, from Hemingway to Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald (not John), and Ray Bradbury.
I try to write what I know: the South and racial conflict during the Civil Rights era (and after); corruption in Vietnam; bizarre law stuff. Much of what informs my prose is stranger than fiction, but maybe the fiction won't require as much suspension of disbelief.