The Newest Lance Underphal Mystery
Here it is, nearly the middle of August (damn near my birthday) and I haven’t posted a blog since the end of July. What with all [...]
Here it is, nearly the middle of August (damn near my birthday) and I haven’t posted a blog since the end of July. What with all [...]
For that matter, he’s no Harry Bosch or Dave Robicheaux either. Solving murders is about the only thing they all have in common. And in that [...]
You think you have problems . . . This guy is a mess! Broke, old and sick—lost his wife in an accident with a cement truck [...]
Probably the coolest thing about writing fiction is you get to make shit up. And when it comes to full length mystery novels, there’s a whole [...]
The art of writing—really? Hmm, yes and no. There is the artistic side, the impulse to create an aesthetic work that is satisfying to one’s self [...]
Having my first mystery novel under my belt, I was confident that all I had to do was get the manuscript in front of competent literary [...]
Nearly a year in the writing and the manuscript was finally finished. It was official, I was a mystery writer and I felt good about it. [...]
A Story To Tell – Step One While the basic story elements for my first mystery novel were plucked from personal experience and local events, there [...]
In truth I’ve been writing in one form another, most of my life. And now at 61 years of age, that’s a fair chunk. However, I [...]