Mike Sirota
Mike Sirota has published twenty books with houses that include The Berkley Publishing Group (Penguin-Putnam), Bantam Books, Pocket Books, and Kensington Publishing Corp, as well as ZOVA Books, which has released his most recent novel, Fire Dance. For fourteen years he was an award- winning feature writer and editor for a Southern California newsmagazine. Mike has facilitated many read and critique workshops and has taught seminars and classes for various educational systems. He is an instructor for the University of California, San Diego Extension and is presently a workshop leader for both Southern California Writers’ Conferences and the La Jolla Writer's Conference. He has also served on the faculty of the Alaska Writers Guild Conference.
Mike's journalism honors include a prestigious Simon Rockower Prize for investigative reporting, and an award from the San Diego County Medical Association. He was also honored as the first "Person of Letters" by the 2002 La Jolla Writer's Conference "for his ongoing and unselfish contributions to and support of the writing community." He is currently working on his next novel, The Burning Ground.
Works
Fire Dance - 2011 - The flames took them all. They spared no one. From the circle of dancers, spinning in their dementia, to the crazed killer in the dungeon below, every man and woman in Concordia Sanitarium was burned alive. Over a century later, few know the story of the fire. The ruins of the Sanitarium stand isolated in the lonely Anza-Borrego Desert until one gruesome murder after another rocks the nearby quiet community of Smoke Tree, California. A spirit has risen from the sand, an entity searching for a host to possess a host with two strong hands.The Burning Ground - 2012