Narrated by Val Cole

While doing an audit on a journalist named Ted Simon's, Delvin Woodhouse auditor follows up to interview the main source for all Ted's articles only to find that she has been missing for 2 years already.

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your novel about?

The Counterfeit Journalists tells the story of Devlin Woodhouse, who audits news outlets to ensure their stories comply with Generally Accepted Journalism Standards. Devlin lives in Phoenix, Arizona, which is suffering a prolonged drought in the year 2035.

During an audit of The Phoenix Daily Journal, Devlin goes to a restaurant called The Buried Lede to find Lucy Ramirez. He seeks Lucy's confirmation she was a source of a journalist's stories. However, he finds out she has been missing for two years and was the journalist's girlfriend. As Devlin investigates, another woman goes missing; two retired journalists are murdered; and the owner of the Phoenix Daily Journal is colluding with Arizona's politicians to drain a tribal community's underground water reservoir to benefit Phoenix.

2. What genres would you say this story is in?

Genres would be Science Fiction and Thriller

3. How would you describe this story in two words?

Heroic Everyman

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Casablanca

5. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the
most times in your life?)

Let the Good Times Roll by The Cars

6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?

No, but I like novels by Tony Hillerman.

7. What motivated you to write this story?

A journalism scandal embroiled the New York Times in the early 2000s. As an auditor I wondered what it would be like to audit news articles in addition to financial statements

8. If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would
that be?

Jack NIcholson

9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?

I like football. It doesn't matter who's playing as long as there's a game.

10. What influenced you to enter your story to get performed?

I saw the offer on Submittable and it intrigued me. Seeing someone read an excerpt of my story is a crazy exciting feeling.

11. Any advice or tips you'd like to pass on to other writers?

You need to read other writers to see what they do. Also, get Pity the Reader by Kirk Vonnegut and Suzanne Sulivan