I've spent fifty years inside other people's stories.
Behind a radio mic. Behind a camera. Behind someone else's words, read into a microphone for an audiobook that wasn't mine to begin with. Major-market radio since 1976. The voice of the Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland since 1995. Past 250 episodes of The Thriller Zone. None of it was a detour — it was training.
TAHOE is the first time all of those lives have converged into one story. This is my third act, and I'm not treating it like a hobby — a novel and a limited series at once, written the way I actually think: in worlds, not just scenes. The thematic spine is the simplest, hardest thing I know to be true: the lies we tell ourselves are the ones we never have to say out loud.
Fifty years of learning how a voice carries a room, a scene, a story. Now I'm pointing all of it at something that's finally mine.
