What the Hell is a Tarantula Hawk?
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 [...]
Cut-Throat Syndrome – An Excerpt
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 [...]
Drone Takes Down ChinaAir Flight 5026
ChinaAir Flight 5026 - Cflow darts across the intersection, squinty eyes scanning for anything unusual or out of place, his scrawny arms awkwardly laden with a large cardboard [...]
Grey Daze, A New Lance Underphal Mystery Novel – An Excerpt
Work In Progress –Grey Daze is the third book in the Lance Underphal mystery series, another hardcore paranormal mystery. Constructing mystery books is a multi-step process, requiring the attention and [...]
Tarantula Hawk Ascending
Flight of the Tarantula Hawk – A Lance Underphal Mystery – Flight of the Tarantula Hawk, the next of the mystery books featuring that reluctant psychic, Lance Underphal, is [...]
The Art of the Book Cover
The Art of the Book Cover – Book cover art has a long illustrious history, dating back to the very first books. An integral part of books, cover art [...]
To Masturbate Or Not To Masturbate, That Is The Question
Gored by the Horns of a Dilemma – Last night, when I pushed back from my latest manuscript in progress, I left my character dangling, somehow incomplete. She's not as [...]
Dark Pieces of a Paranormal Mystery
Flight of the Tarantula Hawk is the next in the Lance Underphal mystery series. As mystery stories go, it is a dark atmospheric tale of paranormal twists. Flavored with intense [...]
Reading Habits of a Mystery Writer
Reading Habits of a Mystery Writer— When I read fiction, which is almost every night, it's in bed and I'm usually in the midst of three or four books, [...]
Random Access to a Paranormal Mystery
The Art of the Vignette – The following excerpts are from the latest mystery book in the Lance Underphal mystery series. The upcoming paranormal mystery is in the final [...]