Ken Goddard's
Fiction-Writing Web Site
Which is mostly a fiction author's view of cops, robbers, terrorists, poachers, wildlife law enforcement, federal agents and crime labs, and includes:
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A brief personal history
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Descriptions and sample chapters of my published and hopefully-soon-to-be published fiction novels, and info on the ones I'm working on now
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Interviews I've done with FatBrain and the CBS-TV/CSI-based web site ModernDaySherlock
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Contact Information for my Literary and Hollywood agents, and my e-mail addresses
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Links to some Forensic & Fiction web sites.
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A link to AV Pictures --- a UK film production company that is planning on turning my first novel, BALEFIRE, into a big-screen thriller movie some time in 2011 --- and Executive Producer Lee Brazier. :) NEW
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And a second link to Stewart & Wall, an Australian Film Production Company that has partnered with AV pictures to film BALEFIRE along the Australian coastline. :) NEW
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Anecdotes involving my past real-life CSI activities (specifically, things that went wrong at several of my crime scenes) ... and some photos of my recent work helping an international team of marine biologists develop CSI protocols to investigate damaged coral reefs.
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And what a fiction writer really does when he's supposed to be writing, in case you were wondering ... which, in my case, includes ranching and hanging out at Wildlife Images, the home of a wide assortment of injured or imprinted critters, such as my 'buddy' Tank (in the copyrighted Seattle Times photo above taken by Harley Soltes) and Griz. More on those two later.
NEW development: most of my novels are now available as eBooks on Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and iTunes ... both in the U.S. and the UK.
NEW development: FINAL DISPOSITION (the third book in my Colin Cellars FIRST EVIDENCE series) is now available as an eBook, and perhaps someday as a paper book. You can see the first two chapters of FINAL DISPOSITION here.
NEW development: my latest novel, CHIMERA, is now available as an eBook. You can see the first two chapters of Chimera here.
NEW development: I created a blog site at www.kengoddardnovels.blogspot.com to describe the real-life stories and events that inspired my fiction novels.
NEW development:
My latest book project: ITS YOUR CRIME SCENE ... a non-fiction guide to how CSI *really*
works, what the investigators at the scenes really do, and how crime
victims can help ... along with some anecdotes about how things went
terribly and/or humorously wrong at some of my real crime scenes.
Now available as an eBook on the Amazon, Nook and iTunes sites
But first, just in case you wandered into this home page by accident,
and might be wondering what cops, robbers, terrorists, federal agents
and crime labs could possibly have to do with an overgrown cat (or to be
more precise, a 120 pound male cougar, complete with teeth, claws and
self-serving attitude), perhaps I ought to introduce myself.
I am, by trade, a crime scene investigator, forensic scientist, wildlife
crime lab director, husband, father, grandfather, supposed cattle
rancher, and more to the point, a fiction author who writes fiction
novels about professional terrorists, underground chemists, demented
burglars and malicious poachers for any number of reasons.
At least one of which is mental health.
Why mental health, you ask? Well, imagine that you'd spent 12 years of
your post-college life as a police criminalist and crime scene
investigator, grubbing around the
evidence of several hundred homicides, rapes and robberies while
trying to link the suspects and victims to the crime scenes. Then
continue to imagine that you'd spending the rest of your
professional career working for the
federal government, first endeavoring to create a crime lab for federal,
state and international wildlife law enforcement officers ... and then
trying very hard to be a non-Dilbert-like boss for roughly 35 wildlife
forensic scientists and support staff who were deliberately hired for
their inventive minds and free spirits as well as their forensic skills.
And then, finally, imagine looking out your living room window and
realizing that you actually own cows, most of whom are constantly trying
to escape to the neighboring pastures and/or the local golf course for
whatever reasons that possess a cow to do such things.
Any more questions about the mental health part?
I thought not.
Anyway, I set these pages up to let you poke around in my head (at least
to the point of finding out something about my background and my books,
if such things actually interest you), and to give you a chance to read
some sample chapters from my published --- and currently available ---
novels.
And finally, for those of you who aren't particularly interested in gory
fiction books, or cows, but would like to know more about cops, robbers,
terrorists, wildlife, federal agents or forensics, I've added a few
links to what I think are some interesting forensic science home pages,
one of which will give you a tour of the National Fish and Wildlife
Forensics Lab (my place of employment).
Happy reading ....