In August 2024 Mordecai of Monterey was re-released and is available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon.

Mordecai of Monterey is a comic novel set in 1973, during the height of the Watergate scandale. From the landscape that inspired Cannery Row, the hero Mordecai discovers that he has been gifted with melanoia – the opposite of paranoia. Melanoia means that Mordecai actually trusts people and expects good things to happen. Mordecai hooks up with fast talking Alabama born Buck and, through his adventures, encounters a sexy soul mate named Francine Fingers. Mordecai finds out just how far good luck can go.

First published in 1985, this retelling of Mordecai of Monterey is a testament to the life and times of the author, his storytelling and his friends.

Here below old reviews of the first version of Mordecai of Monterey on Thriftbooks. There are 1985 editions available second hand. However, this new edition tidied up a few odds and ends and added poems from the 1970’s from archival materials.