Ken Kuhlken’s stories have appeared in Esquire and dozens of other magazines, and anthologies, been honorably mentioned in Best American Short Stories, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He has been a frequent contributor and a columnist for the San Diego Reader.
The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles, book one (chronologically) of the Tom Hickey California Century series, came out on May 1.Set in 1926 (guess where), it features a lynching, dubious law enforcement and other sorts of misbehavior; and bigshots such as W.R. Hearst and Sister Aimee Semple McPherson. I’ll be visiting in Scottsdale, Tucson, Los Angeles, Thousand Oaks, Pasadena, Portland, Seattle, ...
THE SCOOP, Ken Kuhlken’s newsletter The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles is due out in two months. If you’d like a free copy, shoot me an email with an idea for an interesting contest I can run. Any idea I use, the submitter deserves a free book, don’t you think? Too busy to read: Get the Blackstone Audio of The Vagabond Virgins • Blog: Over the past couple months, I’ve blogged ...
A long time ago, Viking Press published my novel Midheaven. But the editor who bought it gave up the business, and even when it became a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for best first novel, no paperback edition came out. Last year, just for the heck of it, I read it over and, discovering the years had made me a far better writer, I revised and sent it to a couple publishers. The ...