New news:

i'm currently shopping my third novel, The Current King of France is Bald. It's the chronicle of a desperate healing and a journey from and back to credulity, woven through the travails of 2 paranormal investigators. It's a bit harrowing, but also uplifting and poetic.

and there's some good news on the horizon. Bedford will soon be released in its second edition! It'll feature a new cover, cleaned-up text, and a little playful paratext by yours truly. The site will see a major re-vamp when it comes out.

and, finally, as noted before, my second novel, Journals From the Time of the Radar Dog, was recently published by BlazeVOX Books and I'm busy trying to get it read and reviewed.

all the info on the book is available on this subsite: bedfordnovel.com/radardog.htm.

a little about it now: the book claims to be the journals of a stark-raving sentimentalist. a brutal friend, a tender monster. narrated, collected, edited, criticized by an indulgent, moralizing, narcissistic, cowardly, rationalizing academic (named you-know-what). it argues for the triumphs of self-pity and self-loathing, the persistence of voice, the dead-end (or dispersed [or forking] paths) of it all.

Radar Dog also represents an evolution of the style that pat forged in Bedford: vital, harried characters struggling with the complexities of emotional responsibility and the conflicting desire to live for themselves and for the present. it brings to life the sun-bleached streets of Los Angeles and the inexplicable magic of metaphor as the setting for the protagonist's efforts to save an innocent boy from the curse of his family, and the reciprocal need to save himself to do it.