Author Jeff McElroy will sign his book Californios.  The book is a collection of short stories that explores California culture.  One short story from the book titled Goofyfoot has been made into an award winning film.  He describes the collection as “surf noir.”

Book Synopsis:

With surfing at its core, the stories collected in Californios reach beyond the ragged sun-bleached periphery of surf-culture, into the lives of shiftless coastal dwellers and migrant field workers. Jeff McElroy channels the Bob Dylan-esque drawl of the West Coast vernacular, creating a world far removed from beach blanket bingo.

Author Biography:

Author Jeff McElroy received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. He won First Place in the Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest for “Brown Pride.” His stories “The Tipsy Fox” and “Song of the Earth” were selected to represent the Antioch MFA Program at the 2008 and 2009 AWP Awards. “Goofyfoot” was adapted to film, screening at the Ventura, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, San Diego and Newport Beach Film Festivals, and winning the Audience Award for Best Dramatic Short at the Valley Film Festival in Hollywood. Jeff is a regular contributor to Wetsand.com, one of the largest surfing websites in the world. “Californios” is the first published collection of his short stories.