Word Craft
Work in Progress: Mary is a published poet and freelance photojournalist. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Romance Writers of America. Her current work in progress is a novel about strawberries, pesticides and murder in the Pajaro Valley. You can visit her writer's blog to learn more as this project unfolds at http://msflo.wordpress.com A new blog has been added to the flo at Flo'in Along Bluebird Creek
What do you get on the Central California Coast in the strawberry fields when you combine billionaire corporate ag boys and gang bangers, homeless people and ghosts, Native Americans, surfers, pesticides and salmon, illegal immigrants, love, sex, a priest, and some elementary school teachers? How do you spell D*E*A*T*H?
The Death of the Gecko.
By Amanda Byrd (pen name)
…a romantic eco-thriller Coming Soon.
“El Gecko? That’s his placa – his gang tag, you know. A street name. Kind of like a nickname his homeboys call him.”