Professionalism Peoples’ motivations for writing fiction are as numerous and varied as the writers themselves.  In my estimation, those who write for the sheer joy [...]

Paranormal – A New Reality . . . Or Is It? If you can believe Wikipedia, Paranormal is: “A general term (coined ca. 1915–1920) that [...]

The Fine Art of Book Trailers While the major motion picture studios mastered the art of movie trailers long ago, many authors and publishers are [...]

The Cost To Go Free They’re everywhere—free eBooks.  In Amazon’s Kindle Store there are 139,023 free eBooks as of this writing.  There is a plethora [...]

Mood Music – A Mystery Writer’s Soundtrack In my view, everything goes better with music, including writing mystery stories.  And I’m not the only mystery [...]

Confessions of a Social Media Anti-Socialite When I told my wife I was making friends on Facebook, she laughed . . . loud and hard, [...]

  10 Songs Dedicated to the Mystery of Love For most, love remains a mystery. And on this Valentine’s Day I am reminded what a [...]

The Top 5 Mystery Writers? In the process of preparing for the release of the first in my series of mystery novels, I commissioned a [...]

They are all considered artistic geniuses in their respective fields. And all three died in poverty. Why? Why, indeed. All three produced art that would [...]

If you faced the survival odds of WWII bombing raids, you’d use everything at your disposal to increase those odds. Painting a pin-up beauty on [...]