event Killin’ ‘Em at Noir Night 19 Oct 2017 Here's a pair of pix from yesterday evening's "Noir Night Assaults the Battery," a co-production (however small) by Crow Tree Books and Switchblade Magazine. I read "The Price of a…
Author post Get Thee to an Editor 15 Oct 201719 Nov 2017 There are four rules to follow if you want to self-publish a novel and not embarrass yourself, the publishing industry, and the English language. They are: 1) Write slowly. Write…
event Indie Author Day 2017 7 Oct 20177 Oct 2017 If you live in or near Los Angeles, consider attending the Indie Author Day event I am hosting at the Echo Park Branch Library on October 14th. Indie Author Day…
Author post… Recursions, Part 7: “The Portable Hannah Arendt,” Edited by Peter Baehr 5 Oct 20175 Oct 2017 This is the seventh 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… Voices in the Dark 28 Sep 20171 Oct 2017 Will you be in Los Angeles on October 18th? If you will be, lucky you: I am inviting you and yours to a reading of noir and crime fiction at…
Author post What, You Missed It? 22 Sep 201722 Sep 2017 ...Of course I didn't announce it on this blog, which is why you should sign on to the Crow Tree mailing list, something you can do at the link conveniently…
Author post Getting Over Yourself: Advice for Novelists 17 Sep 201720 Oct 2017 There are many ways to become a good writer, but one of the best ways to become a great one–besides giving yourself a thorough grounding in the mechanics of language–is…
Author post The Beginning of the End 10 Sep 201710 Sep 2017 I came to the last word of the first draft of my third novel yesterday morning. This marks, of course, not the end of the hard work, but only the…
Announcement… To the Finish Line! 4 Sep 20174 Sep 2017 That's Frank's rat rod in the picture above. Of course he doesn't actually race it, but it's as close as I could get to a racing image without indulging in…
Author post Outside the Lines 31 Aug 20172 Sep 2017 It's popular these days to advise folks that they ought to "color outside the lines," though submitting to that counsel often leads to feeble displays of chaos. Sometimes, though, carefully…
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