One Bite at a Time

 I first posted to this blog on August 17, 2008. George W. Bush was president. The Sole Heir was a rising high school senior. The number one...

 Publishers’ style guides are like grammar in that they should aid the reader’s comprehension. The problem is, like with grammar, too often ...

 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...