Description
Ed Kociela is an acclaimed writer whose work has bridged many aspects of the media world. As a newspaperman, he won numerous awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists. He now works as a freelance writer and weekly columnist for STGnews, an online news outlet. His career includes newspaper, magazine, and broadcast experience as a sportswriter, rock critic, news reporter, columnist, blogger, and essayist. Over the years, his work has been featured in myriad publications ranging from the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Herald-Examiner to US magazine and GOAL!, the magazine of the National Hockey League. He has also worked in entertainment media. His play, "Downwinders," was one of only three presented for a series of readings by the Utah Shakespeare Festival's "New American Playwright Series" in 2005. "Downwinders" is also available on Amazon.com. Kociela has also written two screenplays. "Plygs" is the culmination of his 16-year career as a newspaper reporter, columnist, and city editor in St. George, Utah, which is located about 45 minutes from the community along the Utah-Arizona state line upon which his novel is based. He is now working on a book about his days as a rock music critic in Los Angeles, with stories about some of the greatest names in rock 'n' roll--from George Harrison to Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Peter Frampton, Eric Clapton and many others.
Features & Highlights
- “plygs”…It’s about the death of children’s souls, the manipulation of people of goodwill. It’s about power, greed, and perversion, as perpetrated by the self-proclaimed prophet of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that hides in the shadows of the desert on the Utah-Arizona border. “plygs”…It’s about women raised with no other purpose than to serve husbands chosen for them by the prophet, some of them torn from their homes before they reach their teens, only to be physically and emotionally beaten into hollow, baby-making vessels. “plygs”…It’s about corruption, fraud, and men sworn to uphold the law turning a blind eye to violence and violations of the laws of God and man. “plygs”…It’s about a newspaper reporter who, despite her own troubled past, seeks only one thing: truth. “plygs”…It’s about modern-day America, where families and their children are held in the grip of a religious movement that is rooted in Utah and Arizona, but has spread into Texas, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and western Canada where polygamous colonies go unchecked, thriving in rural outposts on the edge of insanity.
