Welcome to Orcutt.net and ChrisOrcutt.com - Chris Orcutt, Christopher Orcutt, Chris Orcutt. Chris Orcutt is the creator of the Dakota Stevens Mystery Series, including the novels A REAL PIECE OF WORK and THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT. Orcutt's fiction has appeared in literary journals including Potomac Review, The Griffin, Timber Creek Review, Snake Nation Review, The MOTA 3 Anthology, and The 2003 Dan River Anthology, among others. He is the creator of the Dakota Stevens Detective or Mysteries Series, including the novels A Real Piece of Work and The Rich Are Different, which are available on Amazon Kindle. His published stories include The Bootlegger, I Hope You Boys Know What You're Doing, Whose Van is That On Fire Out There, Descent, The Bridge Inspector, Security Guard, I've Got This V, All the Young Fellas Are Linin Up, The Novelist, Indian Giver, Hands, The Day Nixon Resigned, and others. In 1992, Chris Orcutt received a New York Press Association award, and in 2002 he won the 55 Fiction World's Shortest Stories Competition and placed second in the MOTA 3 Emerging Writers Contest. Chris Orcutt's nonfiction has appeared in several magazines and online publications including Writer's Digest. Originally from the coast of Maine, Chris Orcutt has moved over 32 times. Chris hopes you enjoy NotWriting.com: Stuff one writer does when he should be writing. Between moves, he earned a B.S. in philosophy (seriously, a B.S.!) and worked as a pizza maker, newspaper reporter, Radio Shack salesman, landscaper, house painter, American history teacher, adjunct college professor, president of a software startup, technology consultant, technology manager, and parking valet (1 day). In addition to his own writing, Orcutt has provided speechwriting and scriptwriting services for Fortune 100 companies. He is now working on a short story collection about his hometown and is passively seeking literary representation.