Does it seem The Blind Puppeteers is a long time coming? You can’t imagine the roadblocks to this little project. Despite the detours, Jena’s new thriller has returned from [...]
The Blind Puppeteers, Jena’s new thriller is off to the editor, which means we’re getting closer. However, it’s not all that close. On my 33 point checklist, we’re on number [...]
I wrote this a few years ago, but never got around to posting it. Sometimes it takes time for fresh wounds to heal, to gain new perspective on fading scars. [...]
A Big Bad Black Bitch – Tarantula Hawk: The largest of the wasps, bluish-black with Halloween orange wings. The female wasp's stinger is typically 1/3 of an inch long and next [...]
Here I am. There you are. The distance between, self-imposed. How will we ever come to know one another? How about I show you a picture? Then maybe you’ll [...]
The Spoils of War – In Editing Hell for the past several weeks, I’m roughly three-quarters of the way through the first full edit, constantly reminding myself it WILL [...]
Writing Fiction – Looked simple enough. Write a mystery novel. Hire an agent. Get published. Find a writer’s retreat in the woods or by the sea, and do nothing [...]
In the Works – Cut-Throat Syndrome, the fourth book in the Lance Underphal Mystery series, turns international thriller. Since its conception, its cross-genre premise morphed into a very different [...]
Busted – Okay, I confess . . . I did it . . . I bought bad books. Worse, as professional writer I know better. No Bad Books, or [...]
An Ocean of Books, But . . . Last book review I posted was more than two years ago. You may well wonder, did he quit writing book [...]
