Damn you, Vincent Zandri.



I've barked at ol' Vince before for taking noir stereotypes and making them feel fresh (re: my review of…

Trestle Press, my most excellent indie publisher, produces a pile of short story series. One of them, Amish Knitting Circle, owns the top spots for short stories in the entire world.…

Nov. 1 is National Authors Day, a holiday established in 1929 by the General Federation of Women's Clubs. It's used to recognize authors for their contributions to culture and society.

If I had to pick my all-time two favorite authors, it'd be a tie between this guy:

And this guy:

Hunter S. Thompson and Elmore Leonard, respectively. They embody the two halves of what I enjoy most…

In honor of the Halloween holiday, here's a true ghost story that happened to me. Have any of your own? Share them in the comments.

Sleepwalking a Thin Line



by Benjamin Sobieck



Sleepwalking can be an unsettling byproduct of an otherwise peaceful activity. The line between dreaming and reality is thin as your eyelids. But I never knew how thin until a dream stepped into my reality.



The spell of…

Just sent this to the publisher.

Maynard Soloman, a profane yet clueless private investigator, is hired to track down something important stolen from his client: A job. The culprit: Illegal immigrants. Or are they?…

Examiner.com's Book Club featured my interview with Stephanie Schmitz about Cleansing Eden this morning. After getting on the national front…

My Oct. 24 appearance on the G-Zone podcast show put me on a panel with two ex-FBI undercover agents and a West…

An autographed e-book? Yep, techology is that amazing.

Anyone who bought the Kindle version of Cleansing Eden can get it "Kindlegraphed" by yours truly. All you have to do is go to…

An autographed e-book? Yep, techology is that amazing.

Anyone who bought the Kindle version of Cleansing Eden can get it "Kindlegraphed" by yours truly. All you have to do is go to…

B.R. Stateham is a fellow crime author at Trestle…

As mentioned previously, my publisher, Trestle Press, has grown in such size and success that it now requires imprints to keep expansion manageable. I see this as a good thing, since it will focus all the crime authors in one spot.

Now that spot has a name,…

Why does crime fiction always have to be about murder? Let's hear it for the defrauders out there. I'm on a fraud kick with my writing, so I sought out some reading to go with it.

I found…

I opened my e-mail this morning to an excited message from Stephanie Schmitz, who interviewed me the other day for the Charlotte Examiner about Cleansing Eden. It seems the interview made the front page of examiner.com.

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A friend of mine asked me that today. He has an Android smart phone. It's not a Kindle or a Nook, so he figured he couldn't read my crime fiction e-books on his 'droid.

Amazon and…

Big Daddy Abel is a musician with the Amish Outlaws and author. I wanted…

That's what I did for one of my characters, Maynard Soloman. I have a personal profile already, and wasn't using my "author" page all that much. It got confusing and redundant.

The solution was to hand the keys over to Maynard. Not only do I have pre-written content to post from published material, but it's more fun to write in his voice than my own. There's plenty of marketing potential, too.

Here's…