Prolific author of the genre "surf noir" a term he himself coined. Most of kems novels. Such as "tapping the source" and "the dogs of winter" are centered around the southern California surf culture. However.he has written some "inland" novels as well
Such as "unassigned territory"and the darkly comedic "pomona queen".

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods