The author at play.
Neal’s news career began in 1995 at Santa Rosa radio station KSRO. While subsequently reporting for the Sonoma Index-Tribune he earned professional accolades from the National Newspaper Association; Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California; and the Sonoma County Press Club. He has written for the Sonoma Valley Sun, North Bay Bohemian, Petaluma Argus-Courier, Novato Advance, PunkTorah.Org and jweekly, as well as the Jewish Museum of the American West. During the late 1990s, he appeared numerous times on KOME‘s Dennis Erectus Show as a parody ufologist, and was featured in jweekly and The Forward as a “wave-making Jew.” (Then there’s his question about gravity in Astronomy magazine’s May 2023 “Ask Astro” column.)
Since 2005, Neal has crafted more than 160 episodic short stories about a self-defrocked holyman wandering a fantastic land and eking out a meager but honest living as a mercenary cook. These are now available in two e-books, The Cook For Any Price: Across the Rimless Sea and The Cook For Any Price: More Commonwell Tales, with a third expected momentarily. Neal’s other passions include pararabbinics, astrogeekery, informed appreciation, armchair time-travel, recreational thinking, nonjudgmental teetotaling, tabby cats, Oxford commas, and all matters gastronomic.
Contact Neal:
POB 1313, Sonoma CA 95476
rebnachumtheblogger at gmail dot com