Stories for people who suspect normal is overrated
Bodie Plecas writes funny, humane fables about Christmas, rock and roll, second chances—and the peculiar ways people see the world.
Read a Free Chapter
Start The Adventures of Black Santa with a free chapter delivered to your inbox.
The Adventures of Black Santa
Ten-year-old Joy asks Santa for the one gift he may not be able to deliver: bringing her father home for Christmas. What follows is a funny, heartfelt adventure about family, faith, second chances—and what children see that adults often miss. And Santa may need saving too.
Keith
Lives!
When struggling rock musician Keith is reported dead by the media, he finally becomes the star he always believed he should be. A darkly funny collision of music, television, journalism, modern relationships—and everyone eager to profit from the dearly, possibly departed.
Books in
Progress
Two new books are currently refusing to wait their turn: a supernatural horror-thriller and a detective mystery set in 1930s Hollywood. Progress continues, occasionally in the correct direction. Both are behaving badly, which is usually when things get interesting.
About Bodie, More or Less
Bodie Plecas writes across genres because apparently choosing one would have been too straightforward. Christmas fable, rock-and-roll satire, supernatural suspense, old-Hollywood mystery—pick a shelf; he’s probably wandered off it.
Underneath, it’s always the same territory: flawed people, second chances, improbable situations, and the peculiar things we mistake for normal. The stories are funny until they aren’t—and occasionally the other way around.
And There's Music
When he isn't writing, Bodie makes music with Picnic Tool—proof that a band formed in a West Hollywood living room in the '90s can still show up on the radio in Europe decades later
Occasional Notes from Bodie
New books, stray observations, and other evidence that something is happening.
Sent so rarely it barely counts as a habit.