Color outside the lines to create a variegated life.

Portrait of Brent Salish

Brent Salish is the pen name of a successful high-tech executive and consultant. He worked with and for Fortune 100 companies around the globe, along with a number of startups. As part of that career, he wrote books on time and project management.

Before entering the worlds of business and technology, he directed Shakespearean and other plays in New York.

He is the author of the cyberthriller First Tuesday, along with two forthcoming novels that further explore crime, playwriting, and the life of Shakespeare: Innogen and The Cunning Woman.

He is married with grown children. He lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest.

The books

My novels and short stories draw on history, politics, and the enduring unpredictability of reach-exceeds-grasp. My territory: desperate people navigating difficult times.  Plus humor. Because sometimes ya gotta laugh at life. (Wow, does that sound pretentious. Sorry. Yet one more reason I don't write about myself in my books.)

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Short stories

"April With Her Showers Sweet," in an anthology of medieval horror, The Devil Take You. (Can a witch cure the plague? If so, at what ferocious cost?) By the way, very cool trailer here.

"Skinning Bone," in the anthology Cry Baby Bridge. (Cross it… if you dare.)

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All books (and their covers) are human-authored, with no use of generative AI. However, I have used AI to help design this website.