Love the Golden Age and dry British humor along with the outlandish such as Joe Keenan and Carl Hiaasen. "Death by Sheer Torture" by Robert Barnard effective does both. (Murder of one's estranged father on a homemade sexual torture device? How embarassing!) Though I love snarky, dry humor, I try to steer clear of mean. Mean can be funny as we all learned from "Seinfeld", but only when it's making fun of the meanie, which is difficult to do.

My mystery manuscript "Family Matters" was a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel awards.

My first ebook novella "The Groom's Cake" is available on Wicked Ink Press . com. It's a satire on weddings and the reviews show that people enjoy the humor. The April 2010 edition of "Fido Friendly Magazine" contained my article about training your dog with a pet psychic. (Yes, I did do research and, no, Buster is still not trained.)

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