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Neal’s professional writing 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. His well-and-arduously-chosen words have appeared in the Sonoma Valley Sun, North Bay Bohemian, Petaluma Argus-Courier, Novato Advance, PunkTorah.Org and jweekly, as well as the virtual Jewish Museum of the American West. During the late 1990s, he appeared numerous times on San Jose radio station KOME‘s Dennis Erectus Show as a parody ufologist, and was once 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.) He may also be found as engineer/co-host of Thursday afternoon’s Sonoma Valley Interfaith Radio Hour on local-broadcasting gem KSVY (91.3 FM or streaming live at ksvy.org).
Since 2005, Neal has crafted more than 160 episodic short stories about a self-defrocked holyman in a fantastic land making a modest 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 chronic pareidolia, avid astrogeekery, informed appreciation, armchair time-travel, recreational thinking, tabby cats, Oxford commas, and all matters gastronomic.
Contact Neal:
POB 1313, Sonoma CA 95476
scoop at sonic dot net