One Bite at a Time

 Travel and prior commitments prevented me from writing about march’s left Coast Crime conference in Denver. I’ll correct that today. A qu...

 Charlie Stella is unique, and not just like everyone else. Charlie is much more comfortable talking about his past than I am – it’s his pas...

 In December 2009 I was fortunate enough to be able to interview the late Ken Bruen for the  New Mystery Reader  website. here is that inter...

  Within Plain Sight , Bruce Robert Coffin. The fourth in the outstanding Detective John Byron series shows Coffin’s skill at weaving an int...

  “The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.” ― Tom Waits Contemporary editing doesn’t kic...

It’s safe to say I’ve been harsh in my denunciations of writers who use artificial intelligence in their work. Nothing I’ll say here contrad...

 Among the joys of being a writer is getting to know people like Eric Beetner. As nice a person as I know, Eric is, in addition to being a g...