 His work is issued as a series of records and books, which continue the stories of each other's characters and further develop plot-lines.Considered a regionalist writer, he writes mostly about San Diego, a bordertown city in Southern California, namely the area around the US/Mexico border, though many of his stories take place to the south of San Diego in the city of Tijuana, Mexico.Gnade also writes stories that take places across the continental US but according to interviews he's done these stories always reflect the Californian's experience on the road.