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Writing and the Spirit
With all the ease of a friend on your couch-an ingenius, multiple-PhD-holding, wise-man sort of friend, Ken Kuhlken combines observations of the world we live in, writers in history and his own experience (failures and triumphs) to form an all-around handbook of writerly wisdom.
The Loud Adios
The Loud Adios is set on the home front during World War II. Tom Hickey is in the army, an M.P. working the Tijuana-San Diego border, when a farm boy draftee about to ship overseas begs for help rescuing his sister from a gang of German and Mexican Nazis.
The Angel Gang
It is the winter of 1949: Tom and Wendy Hickey are at peace in their Lake Tahoe cabin awaiting the birth of their first child. Wendy is young and delicate and her unworldly innocence and faith in her angels provide her with a stronger shield against evil than Toms devotion and the gun he sometimes carries....
San Diego Noir
San Diego is home to miles of beaches, Balboa Park, a world-famous zoo and some of the US's most expensive homes and resorts. Yet the city also houses a few things that aren't actively promoted by the visitors bureau - a number of America's most corrupt politicians, border-related crimes, terrorists and the occasional earthquake. A noir feast! The San Diego of the past and the present offers the book's contributors a rich selection of settings, from the cross on Mount Soledad to the piers of Ocean Beach.
Newport Ave
A Sunday school teacher plots murder. A fugitive from a manslaughter charge returns home to a foggy California beach town hoping to protect his sister from her estranged husband, a mob-connected gambler. He enlists the help of his closest old friend, now a devoted Christian family man. After exploring all options, they decide the only sure way to protect the sister is to kill the gambler. "... a water-tight thriller and an elegy to friendship. It possesses the qualities of Dennis Lehane’s best— the same sense of long-seasoned relationships, unrealized expectations, and even a kind of grace. I finished it just two days ago and could start it again right now.” — Timothy Hallinan, author of the Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers and the Junior Bender Mysteries “... riveting classic noir, teeming with suspense arising from questions we all face: how loyal are we; how willing to sacrifice; how deep is our love. Beautifully written and intriguing at every turn, this novel will linger in your mind and heart. A winner!” — Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling novelist.
The Holy Grail
The Holy Grail concludes the For America saga with Otis finding in an island prison a measure of peace, which then is disturbed by baseball and the rape of a woman he loves. He escapes from prison and flees Mexico to settle with the rapist and with the resurrected Enemy, and with the deranged and relentless Cynthia Jones. And after Otis once again falls in love and renews his pursuit of a baseball career, a team of screwball Charles Manson worshippers come seeking revenge against his dear friend Nancy, once a Manson family girl.
This Rough Beast
In This Rough Beast, Book 2 of For America, Otis Otterbach attempts to make a life after baseball and after his best and most trusted friend disappears, perhaps on the run after committing murder The story follows and interprets the hopes and turmoil of the 1960s including the Vietnam war through the eyes of an infantry soldier, a helicopter pilot, and a deserter; the protest movements in Berkeley; the rise and fall of the folk music and coffee house scene; the Manson family and what its existence caused and taught, from the point of view of the girl whose testimony assured the conviction of Charles Manson.
Supermen
Readers accompany Otis Otterbach on a road trip to the little league world series, share his torments prompted by sex and other facts of life, follow him and his best friend and catcher Casey through the MLB draft and on an ominous mission directed by Casey’s mother, the likely deranged and surely homicidal Cyjnthia Jones.
War
Book Four of For America:. Otis Otterbach decides he won’t live in the same world as the man Cynthia Jones calls the Enemy and whom he holds responsible for burning down his home and killing Casey, Cynthia's son and Otis's dearest friend. Otis trains to make himself into a ruthless warrior then and sets off on what will likely be a suicide mission. After searching in wilderness and jungles, he arrives in the capital of Mexico where the Enemy and followers await him.
Writing and the Spirit
Writing and the Spirit is a trove of reflections on the attitudes, habits, and practices that lead to inspiration. Learn to: Be Ridiculous, Loathe B.S., Love Like Whitman, Get Free, Pursue Beauty, Become Who You Are, and Behold the Secret of Art. “The themes of Ken Kuhlken’s vignettes kept drawing me in: being humble in writing, being generous with giving yourself away, getting quiet in order to write, and how to create a masterpiece that will change someone’s life.” Philip Yancey, award-winning author of over 20 books, including Where Is God When It Hurts? and What’s So Amazing about Grace? philipyancey.com “Writing and the Spirit is a handbook of writerly wisdom that anyone who...
