Pacific Coast Highway Paperback - 2015

Stephen Smoke is the author of 20 novels, including Black Butterfly, Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Blues, Trick of the Light, The Prince of Palos Verdes, and Cathedral of the Senses under his own and other names. He has also written ten non-fiction books. Stephen has written and directed feature films, including "Street Crimes" (starring Dennis Farina) and "Final Impact," and has written screenplays for others, including "Magic Kid." All of Stephen's HarperCollins novels-and most of the rest of his novels-have been optioned for film, including Trick of the Light (published by Beyond Words-publisher of The Secret), which was optioned by Hemdale (winner of two Academy Awards for Best Picture: "Platoon" and "The Last Emperor of China." With the publication of Cathedral of the Senses, Trick of the Light, and I, Walt Whitman in all three formats (softcover, eBook, and enhanced multimedia format for the iPad), Stephen has the unique distinction of being a novelist with three multimedia eBooks, each containing its own embedded soundtrack. Stephen founded and published Mystery Magazine, and published the first online mystery magazine (Hamilton Caine's Mystery Digest). He is also a published songwriter. He is a member of ASCAP and regularly collects royalties for music he has written. He occasionally plays at local coffeehouses and other venues. Stephen is the author of the Bill of Responsibilities series and the Teen Bill of Responsibilities Course, which is taught in several Southern California schools.