Announcement Crime and Punishment, American-Style 31 Mar 201831 Mar 2018 Lock the doors and latch the windows: it's time to read more noir--if you dare! Yes, I've got another story published in Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, available now for Kindle,…
Author post… Quickie Book Review: Salman Rushdie’s “Fury” 24 Mar 201824 Mar 2018 Just finished Salman Rushdie's Fury. This was my first taste of Rushdie, and it disappointed me. The protagonist is the usual brilliant academic undergoing a midlife crisis. (True, he is…
Author post River of Night 19 Mar 201819 Mar 2018 darkness surges from the east slow silent inexorable, while day grows timid and flows over the western horizon, diluting a glimmering sea — or so we say we who see the universe…
Announcement How to Read My Books Gratis without Impoverishing Me 12 Mar 201813 Mar 2018 I get it: no one wants to spend money they don't have to, especially not on matters such as literature, which can only transform your soul...or give you a rollicking…
Announcement Digital Editions Half-Price Till 10 March 5 Mar 20185 Mar 2018 Smashwords, which is where I produce my e-books (except for Kindle editions) is having a sitewide sale, so all my digital books are now available half-off there from March 4th to…
Author post… Recursions, Part 10: “The Dawn Watch,” by Maya Jasanoff 4 Mar 20184 Mar 2018 This is the tenth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Announcement… Teaser: “My Turn to Die” 28 Feb 201828 Feb 2018 I have finished the third draft of my next novel, titled My Turn to Die, and am grinding through the process of offering to agents while deciding whether I'd really…
Author post Old Man Reading Out Loud, with Accomplices 25 Feb 201825 Feb 2018 Well, not all of you missed it--I mean last Friday's "Noir in NELA" reading at Jen Hitchcock's edgy little shop, called Book Show LA. The room was packed! Sure, it was…
Author post A Book by Its Cover: Advice for the Self-Published 19 Feb 201819 Feb 2018 If your work is to be produced by a trade publisher, the cover will be entirely out of your hands. This can be a good thing, and it can be…
Author post Poetry Run 10 Feb 201810 Feb 2018 So one has to take a break from the prosaic now and then...my "vacation" has been a return to my roots in poetry. Normally this would be a dangerous thing,…
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