Stephen King – Revisited
Like most mystery writers, I first learned to read. The writing of others can not only be enjoyable, but downright inspiring. We authors, whether writing mystery stories, literary dramas or [...]
Like most mystery writers, I first learned to read. The writing of others can not only be enjoyable, but downright inspiring. We authors, whether writing mystery stories, literary dramas or [...]
If you are anything like me, most facets of life provide inspiration of one sort or another. True, life is not always a bowl of cherries. [...]
For many Baby Boomers, the first brush with Poe comes from Roger Corman and a series of horror movies from the 1960s: The Pit and the Pendulum The Fall [...]
When I sat down to write the first book in the Lance Underphal Mystery series, I had only a vague concept of the genre—specifically, Mystery/Thriller. Now that Dark Side of [...]
Okay, so he may have a bit of a head start, having published his break-out novel, Carrie, in 1973. And yes, he has a few million [...]
To those curious, but who’ve yet to write mystery novels for a living, it can seem intriguing, mysterious—a strange confluence of alchemy, pot-boiling and cryptic conjuring. [...]
Mystery and suspense, like any other commercially published genre, has an obligation to engage its readers. Writers on whole are a lazy bunch (and I should [...]
Popular opinion (subject to the propaganda of vested interests) would have you believe that anything having to do with the paranormal, ESP, psychic phenomena and the [...]
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 [...]