Week of April 6, 2026
Here’s a rundown of my week.
From Guatemala…
Great read on Lake Atitlán while dinning at Tul y Sol.
Platypus Sacrifice Performed at the Acuña Cartel: A Jett Turner Misadventure: Book #3
I thought writing for a cartel boss was painful. Then I got stabbed by a platypus. Twice.
The name’s Jett Turner and my writing about Acuña Cartel head Tito “El Tigre” Calderón has turned my life into a mosaic of absolute insanity. This past month has seen me get poisoned by the aforementioned animal (Yeah, they’re venomous. Look it up!), survive a plane crash, deal with a clowder of feral cats, and go toe-to-toe with a Santería priest and my witch doctor of a housekeeper. Throw in two DEA agents who awarded me Informant-of-the-Month status and won’t leave my pool, a dangerously seductive stewardess, and an Australian who has a bong crafted from a koala skull, and you get an idea of what I’m up against in my want to live a happy semi-retired life.
This third misadventure that is my life is rated R for language, crude humor, and insanely bizarre circumstances but rates an A+ for all of the aforementioned and entertainment value.
Platypus Sacrifice Performed at the Acuña Cartel is Book 3 in the wildly popular Jett Turner Misadventures series. Check out the rest of the books in the series:
Interview: Len Levinson
Len is a great guy and one hell’uva writer.
It was an honor to interview him years back.
Click through to read my conversation with this pulp master.
Random Quote
“Yeah, fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.” - Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
Random Quote #2
“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.” - Stephen King, The Dead Zone.
Fall of the Lost City
I entered a Land of the Lost writing contest a few years back.
I was told my entry was too violent.
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