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The stories just keep coming fast and furious. I have been fortunate to be able to tap into a pool of amazing and talented authors that have a true enthusiasm for their craft. These men and women are in my estimation just incredible authors and people. Basically they are taking a blogger, me, and risking a chance of really being embarrassed as I may drag them to my level and consequently produce some really rotten stuff. What has happened though is nothing short of brilliance. Thomas White’s…

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It’s a strange feeling to like an assassin and I wouldn’t have thought I would. After all, as a therapist, I’m more into the “let’s make people feel better” side of things. Yet there’s no question that in “Conflict Of Interest,” author Lauryn Christopher manages to portray Margaret Harrison, corporate consultant, in a such a way that I find it completely understandable that she hires out to kill people as a side gig. A girl needs to make some play money, after all. Have a little savings set…

Criminals who are waiting out their time on death row engage in a variety of activities to make the days pass.  Some read countless law books in hopes of finding a way to appeal their sentence.  Others take up writing or music in the limited ways that their circumstances will allow.  Serial killer John Wayne Gacy…

Tomorrow I’ll have some book signing fun at the Taste N Books book fair.  Sunday at the Waldorf Jacees Community Hall, this event brings together two of our favorite passions: FOOD AND BOOKS! What could be better?



From 10am to 3pm, the event will pair authors with foods that fits their book. Come out for good food and to meet a dozen local authors, including me, PLUS...



Meet the D-Cup Divas along with…

Alexander Steele and the Deadly Ring

by Larry J.

Dan Coleman over at Crimespace is holding a novel contest. The details are below:

* PURPOSE: To discover publish-worthy fiction novels written in English by self-published authors.

* FREE ENTRY.

* CATEGORIES:  ADULT MYSTERY, THRILLER, LITERARY. No Sci-Fi/Fantasy, erotica, techno, or children's stories, no graphic violence or perversion against/toward children.

* PRIZES: $50(U.S.) 1st Prize, $25 each(U.S.) 2nd & 3rd Prizes(paid via cashier's checks). Funding is…

Today’s Writers tricks of the trade deals with tapping into your own emotions and experiences to write what your characters are feeling. This allows you to make a wide detour around clichés and create dimensional…

Are you ready to Rumble? Want to read a seriously dark, angry, violent origin story to a new and gripping sci-fi/fantasy digital short story franchise? Do you groove on fire golems and wolves? In the future after reading this are you going to stare at people on the beach to see if they do indeed possess a belly button? How many more questions can I right in a row? Will I ever tell you what this story is about and stop beating around the bush? Can I in fact get to what is between the virtual…

Here are some of the things I have learnt whilst writing a crime novel -

Anyone can fit inside a pop our cake. Most of these cakes aren't cakes after all. They may have frosting on the outside, but the rest is usually cardboard. This is a bit disappointing when you want your character to eat their way out of the cake.

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I do appologize for my delay in posting to this site. My computer is sick you see. I call her Minerva. She shares a name with a character in one of my stories. Anyway my computer has been in bed all day with a terrible cough and high fever. Her doctor wrote her a prescription for Norton which I had filled but she hasn't responded to that either.

Lucky for me I am so paranoid that I have about 3 different copies of my work stashed away in case something like this should…

Damn, I’ve done it again. Finished a novel, sent it to my publisher…Oh, dear. What’s next?

If I write that this is THE authorial dilemma, I’m sure I’ll get emails from writers who just can’t finish their book, or from readers who’d like to be writers telling me that I shouldn’t be complaining about such a pleasant quandary.

So let me say that I’m not complaining. Just…

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Mystery conventions have to be some of the wackiest, most creative and high energy get-togethers around, Comic Con not withstanding (if you can stand a hundred Darth Vadersroaming around).

Years ago, when I was starting out in the mystery field, a small conference called Bare Bones took place in the hills above Escondido in a church camp near the town of Julian. We stayed in cabins, ate…