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I’m dividing my time between two forms of writing–travel writing and speculative fiction. The two may inform each other, but rarely meet.

The speculation, however, is what concerns me here in this blog.

I’m currently in the finishing stages of a mafia novel set in the politically tumultuous deserts of the north. Feyideh Ava, groomed all her life to take over the Family Business, finds herself suddenly shaken by the murderous deeds she’s unthinkingly committed over the years. She leaves the Family to search out redemption in the most difficult way she can think: working to bring about peace between the local guerrilla movement and the army that hunts them down. The task is harder than she imagined, especially when she learns just how long a reach the Family has….