In Violet

Jonny Stoddard, an aspiring L.A. screenwriter, sees Hollywood in his dreams and jetliners in his nightmares. On one eventful night, his freak proximity to a spectacular accident further complicates Stoddard's already complicated SoCal life: his relationship with his traffic-copter-queen girlfriend; his hot-and-cold attitude about his day job as a high school teacher; and his creative struggle to tell the story of Violet, a doomed starlet with a Hitchcock obsession.

David Coddon is a Southern California-based fiction writer, longtime journalist and theater critic who, when not in creative mode, teaches at San Diego State University, the University of California San Diego Extension and San Diego Mesa College.