Sex, drugs, murder, and a lot of laughs are what make it hard to put down the latest work of fiction by LR Penn. Collision Course examines various facets of the American dream, contrasting the lifestyle inside the white picket fence with the fantasy world out in the fast lane. Three women are waging a 21st century version of the battle of the sexes as they search for personal fulfillment, but their intertwined lives are irreparably changed by a suspicious suicide. The novel's heroine, an alienated slacker with a strong libido, decides that she needs to get to the bottom of the mysterious...

In the Blood is the screenplay for an edge-of-your-seat thriller whose fast moving plot rapidly weaves a tight web of blackmail, incest, sexual jealousy, and revenge. A deadly curse hangs over the heads of three generations of a southern California family whose youngest member, an eleven-year-old girl, finds herself in terrible danger. The film's heroine is a young police officer who is desperately trying to find the girl's mother. But a conspiracy driven by greed, lust, and shame is equally determined that the truth should remain hidden. The missing woman was no angel, and there are plenty...

How do people get so crazy? LR Penn, it seems, knows exactly how. The Syzygy is a triptych constructed from a series of stylistically disparate narratives that portray, in their own words, the novel's main characters, three young adults working in Silico