Jim Guigli began writing with single sentence entries for the 2005-2006 Bulwer- Lytton Fiction Contest. From thousands, one of Jim’s 63 entries was selected as the Grand Prize winner. It was about a beautiful, mysterious woman visiting the small office of an impoverished private detective, Bart Lasiter. Benefits from winning the Contest included world-wide notice, print, radio, and TV interviews.
Though the Contest is about writing a bad opening sentence to a non-existent novel, people kept asking, “What about the rest of the book? What happens to Bart Lasiter?”
After hearing those question too many times, Jim took that one sentence and created the Old Town Sacramento fictional world of Bart Lasiter, and Lasiter
Investigations. Since then, Jim has published a Kindle novelette, Bad News for a Ghost, and published flash fiction, short stories, and a novel, Under the Black Flag – Piracy Is Not a Victimless Crime. Many of these stories have won awards.
Jim lives nearby in Carmichael with his wife, Fran, and a female Yellow Labrador
Retriever.