Charles Dennis

Hollywood Raj, Charles Dennis's thirteenth novel, is being published by Vingsbo Press on Valentine's Day, 2018. His other books include The Magiker, Given the Crime, Given the Evidence, Shar-Li, The Dealmakers, This War is Closed Until Spring, and Bonfire. He wrote the screenplay for Richard Lester's film Finders Keepers which was based on Dennis's novel The Next-to-Last Train Ride. His play, Going On, has been produced in New York, London and Los Angeles. He played Sunad on Star Trek: The Next Generation and was the voice of Rico in Disney's Home on the Range. He wrote and directed the film, Hard Four, which starred Bryan Cranston, Ed Asner, Dabney Coleman, Ed Begley Jr., Paula Prentiss, Ross Benjamin and Rachelle Carson. Dennis won the Samuel Fuller Guerrilla Filmmaker Award for Atwill. He wrote and directed Chicanery, the first feature film shot on an iPad, which received the Innovation Award at the 2017 Riverside International Film Festival. His popular blog, Paid to Dream (www.paidtodream.com), is a collection of audio and video interviews as well as essays on great artists and reviews of current and classic films. Dennis is hard at work on the sequel to Hollywood Raj: People in Aspic.