Eric James Miller

Eric James Miller is a former systems analyst and world traveler who also once made his living delivering sixty- and seventy-foot sailboats in the Caribbean. A veteran of both the business and creative side of the film and television world, he is a former long-term resident of Venice Beach, California who finds the ghosts of the Mojave Desert less neurotic, but equally as eclectic as those in Hollywood and the southern California beach communities. "For Rent: Dangerous Paradise" is set in a surreal, but not altogether unreal, apartment building in Venice Beach. It is the first in a new series of beguiling place-centric For Rent mysteries. The next one, "For Rent: Haunted Neon" follows budding young journalist Dana Santoyo to Las Vegas. His earlier novel, the 1996 road trip comedy "The Metaphysics of Nudity" has been out of print for a number of years but is scheduled for re-release in 2014.

A Pennsylvania Dutch baker, Tuscan cook and Chilean wine maker, Eric is currently using his eclectic past, nose for business, taste buds for world cuisine and fondness for deploying an array of disguises to gather the sights, sounds, symbols and sensations to thinly veil certain people he has met in his travels to spice up his next novel in the series.