Corey Lynn Fayman
Corey Lynn Fayman has been a professional musician, songwriter, sound designer, educational technologist, and multimedia developer, and has outlived any number of rock and roll bands and Internet start-ups. He received his B.A. in Creative Writing, with a specialization in Poetry, from UCLA and has a Master's degree in Educational Technology from San Diego State University. He was co-manager, songwriter and keyboard player for ten years with Bad Dog, a San Diego-based band performing original songs, blues standards, soul, early funk and rock and roll throughout Southern California. A retrospective of the band's original music will be available soon on iTunes, Rhapsody, emusic and other online music providers. As a sound designer and audio technician at the world-renowned Old Globe Theatre, Corey received nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle for his work on "Julius Caesar" and a Dramalogue award for sound design on "Holiday". As an instructional designer, he has designed and developed many educational products, including the Domestic Disturbance Intervention Training multimedia program for the U.S. Army's Military Police school in Anniston, Alabama. As manager of the Multimedia Group at MP3.com, Corey oversaw the design and development of dozens of interactive CD products, including the original interface design and programming for MP3.com's "D.A.M. CD", the first, and possibly last, Internet-based publish-on-demand CD system. Corey's first novel, Black’s Beach Shuffle, has recently been published. It's the first installment in a trilogy of detective mysteries centered around Rolly Waters, recovering rock musician and part-time private investigator. In Black's Beach Shuffle, Rolly's investigation leads him to the beaches and high-tech centers of San Diego where he encounters the surreal world of dot.com culture and a motley crew of suspicious characters, including an excitable CEO who speaks in surfer lingo, a mysterious financier, high-stakes grifters, naked computer geeks, porn star secretaries, and harmonica-playing goons, among others. The second installment in the trilogy, “Border Field Blues,” Rolly's path crosses with illegal immigrants, right-wing talk show hosts, endangered bird populations, foreign bride services, and video game culture. The third novel, “Slab City Rockers,” involves dirty cops, historical racial tensions, a reclusive rock star, and a group of hippies living “off the grid” in the desert east of San Diego. Corey lives with his wife in San Diego, where he teaches interactive design and multimedia at the Art Institute of California. |
Black’s Beach Shuffle
Synopsis: Rolly Waters is a recovering rock musician and part-time private eye. One night his band performs at a blowout party for EyeBitz.com, a fast-rising Internet startup that has the city of San Diego talking. When Rolly returns after hours to retrieve his guitar from the host's mansion, he finds a dead body floating in the swimming pool. His discovery sets in motion a series of intrigues that drag him into the surreal world of dot.com culture, as well as the dark heart of his own uneven past. Black's Beach Shuffle updates the classic Southern California gumshoe world of Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald with contemporary technology riffs, new millennium anxieties and sun-blotted humor. It pumps out a page-turning mix of plot twists, colorful characters and laugh-out-loud humor as Rolly's investigation ricochets him from the high-tech industrial parks of Torrey Pines Mesa to downtown blues clubs, from street taco shops to the penthouse of the La Jolla Hyatt, from the hallowed halls of academia to the sands of Black's Beach, San Diego's official clothing-optional playground.
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