This is big news. I knocked the price of my collection of experimental flash fiction, "4 Killer Crime Stories in 4 Minutes," down to free.

As of this writing, it's the #2 best-selling free (that's an oxymoron) collection of short stories in all of Amazon. You can see the list here: http://tinyurl.com/3wldvkm (Note that ranking is only as of this writing, I don't know if it will still be there when you see…

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I’ve received many questions about profiling from readers.  It seems that many people are interested in this technique and how it actually works.  I can’t blame them because it’s an intriguing concept and that’s why I studied it along with my criminology.

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Just wanted to take a time out from reading the threads and posts to say "thank you" to the CrimeSpace community. This year marked the culmination of a lot of hard work. I turned to the C'Spacers a lot during that time, and their insights helped me get to where I am today. I may not be rich or famous, but I've got a novel out I can be proud of.

Before you break out the guitars and sing, "Kumbaya," know that I'm not kissing anyone's arse in particular. It's just good to have a…

Robert Venditti was nice enough to come onto the G-ZONE, my blogtalk radio show, on Weds. June 1^st. Here is the link:

   http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gelatisscoop/2011/06/01/robert-venditti-stops-by-to-chat

Now that that is out of the way, why is it I feel the need to apologize? If you listen in on the broadcast you will find out why, but to give you the long and short…

This is a good question.  It’s a solid, straight to the point question about writing.   It’s a question I’ve been asked quite a bit lately. 

How long does it take to write a novel? 

I’ve heard answers from it takes a lifetime to however long it takes you to read a book times a five hundred.  These responses make me laugh and are honest, but…

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The noir genre and I have an uneasy relationship. On the one hand, pitch black noir can entertain like no other. The characters are always in varying degrees of damnation, the violence is brutal, the alcohol/drug abuse is ubiquitous and nothing about the plot is as it seems.

On the other hand, there are certain noir stereotypes that never go away. If you've read one, you've read them all. There's the PI with the tortured past who drinks too much. There's the female in need of…

When Peter Cook admitted to Dudley Moore that he was “turned on by dead Popes,” it was a satire on those among us who’re so bored by their lives as to be infinitely suggestible. Thus a dead pope lying on a catafalque in white robes looks “at peace, at rest, and ****ing fanciable.”

The joke, of course, is that no one could imagine the Pope as a sexual object, whether alive…

We all have been made aware through cable news stories, magazine articles, and our own friends about the crimes that can be committed using a computer.  There is the growing menace of cyberbullying, through which (mostly) young people leave cruel remarks on Facebook or post embarrassing videos on YouTube.  Viruses can infect…

“Kick off your shoes and prepare to stay up all night, because when Robert Baty gets his hands on you, you won’t put this novel down. Baty has voice and his hero has attitude, and VINTAGE CONNOR is one hell of a ride.”

 --Lynn Hightower, author of WHEN SECRETS DIE and FORTUNES OF THE DEAD

Although we never meet the Blonde, we know enough about her as the story winds up to want to have been her protector as well as save all the other young girls out there who succumb to…

Super Ali Karim is at Pulp Pusher...don't miss this one: http://pulppusher.blogspot.com/2011/05/push-ups-ali-karim.html…

Super Ali Karim is at Pulp Pusher...don't miss this one: http://pulppusher.blogspot.com/2011/05/push-ups-ali-karim.html…