The Top 5 Mystery Writers?
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 market survey of book [...]
Hot Babes On Ghostly Planes
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 the nose of your [...]
5 Tips to Avoid eBook Burn
With the onslaught of digital reading devices and the subsequent flood of eBooks, readers are faced with a big dilemma. How to keep from getting burned [...]
Murder Victim’s Last Trip to Saguaro City
Excerpt from my first murder mystery novel – "The landmarks of Saguaro City came into view on his right, the tall saguaros rising fifty/sixty feet off the desert floor. [...]
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 [...]
What Inspires You?
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. [...]
What’s Halloween Without Edgar Allan Poe?
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 [...]
What Kind of Job is Writing Mystery Novels, Anyway?
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. [...]
Ghostly Flyers of WWII– Research for a Mystery Novel
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 [...]
Murder and Psychic Phenomena – a Wicked Mix
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 [...]