About the author

Scott Cherney

<p> After landing on Earth in Stockton, California, Scott Cherney wore a lot of hats in his life and times, among them, a cowboy hat as a weekend gunslinger at the Pollardville Ghost Town, a western amusement park that also&nbsp; the Palace Showboat Dinner Theater.&nbsp; There he became a triple threat actor/writer/director of several melodrama/vaudeville stage productions. Cherney was also an award-winning stage actor and won&nbsp; the one and only Stockton Stand-Up Comedy Competition.</p> <p> Cherney is the author of the road rage novel <strong>Red Asphalt</strong>, a movie memoir called <strong>In the Dark: A Life and Times in a Movie Theater</strong>, the true travel tome known as <strong>Please Hold Thumbs: A Not So Round Trip to South Africa,</strong> a collection of comedy sketches entitled <strong>Now THAT&#39;S Funny </strong>and the western comedy romance <strong>Song of the Canyon Kid.</strong></p> <p> His plays include <strong>Song of the Lone Prairie</strong>,<strong> La Rue&#39;s Return</strong> (w/Edward Thorpe), th<strong>The Legend of the Rogue </strong>and <strong>The Perils of Francois.</strong></p> <p> He currently lives near Portland, Oregon,<br /> &nbsp;</p>