Announcement Will You Be in Los Angeles on February 23rd? 5 Feb 20185 Feb 2018 What will you be doing in Los Angeles on February 23rd, 2018? Whatever it is, start feeling guilty if it does not involve attending the Live Noir Reading at BookShow…
Announcement More Advice on Writing, Reprinted 2 Feb 20187 Feb 2018 Advice on writing by...er...me! Reprinted in "A Writer's Path," a literary community, originally printed here as "Clause and Effect": "How to Avoid Being Too Wordy in Your Writing" This is…
Announcement In the Material World 19 Jan 2018 The picture heading this post shows one of my novels, Family Ties, in the new books display at the Echo Park branch library here in Los Angeles. This means new…
Announcement On Paper, In Stores 10 Nov 2017 Issue #3 of Scotch Rutherford's Switchblade, an Anthology of Noir, is out now, a fact which particularly interests me as it contains the first short story I have published in…
Announcement Poetry in Motion 1 Nov 20171 Nov 2017 I seem to be on a roll, as they say of both sandwiches and anyone engaged in something more or less demanding: the little poems I've been writing whilst in…
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…
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…
Announcement… Speech and Scribbles 24 Aug 201725 Aug 2017 No one is really sure yet where language comes from, whether it originates in the brain, or somewhere beyond, in the dim electric dancings of the universe. Surely if we…
Announcement… Books in the Offing 18 Aug 201719 Aug 2017 Being both an English major and (once upon a time) a sailing man, I have a visual sense of what "in the offing" means: it describes the position of a…
Announcement… 85,021 6 Aug 20178 Aug 2017 The third novel now stands at 85,021 words. This is close to what I'd envisioned as its final bulk, and in fact the first draft is close to finished. Just…
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