I suppose now that I'm essentially off social media, with the occasional exception of TikTok, I should at least keep faithful readers of...

“Medicine, law, business, engineering ... These are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love ......

A dear friend of mine passed away in September. His memory deserves more than the tribute I wrote for him in my hometown newspaper, but I...

With my new horror collection, Fool’s Fire, coming in October, I thought it would be fun to give you a taste of what will be on offer....

Something in the middle distance. Much larger than a man. Shaking its cloven head back and forth on a hilltop, backlit by a full moon as...

Things have been quiet here on the blog front, but it would be a mistake to think that means I haven’t been pounding away at the anvil of...

TikTok didn’t seem very promising to me at first. I’m guessing a lot of writers don’t bother to move beyond a similar initial impulse....

And so we find ourselves in that cozy interval between Christmas and New Year’s. New Year’s Day is especially meaningful for me this...

Here it is at last, folks: the cover reveal for The Maker-Man of Merryville. I had hinted that I may end up releasing this book in time...

My principal aim with this bibliography was to get literary-minded cinephiles pointed in the right direction should they develop an...

Here I am, mere months away from my fiftieth birthday. Some milestones in life are more or less made up, but how could anyone let the...

Reader, you’ve put up with me as I’ve shifted my focus from horror to crime and suspense fiction over the past year or so, and I’ll repay...

I suspect that a marketing person would have urged me to use a title for this post that points to the fact that my new collection, The...

Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to meet a homicide investigator by the name of Lieutenant Caldera, not only in the crime collection I...

The verdict is in from Kirkus Reviews! Click here to read their review of my noir thriller The Portable Nine, or see below. You can also...

I realized a number of things while reading this novel. One is that it’s been too long since a book left me teary eyed. Another is that...

Greetings, one and all. As some of you know, I have a collection of crime stories coming out this summer called The Wages of Crime. To...

This is almost as much of a surprise to me as it is to you, but I already have another book in the world. As usual with any kind of...

[Self-promotional preamble: an interview I recently gave to the good people at IndieMuse—in support of the release of my new thriller,...

Proving that you can never plan for every possible glitch when launching a new title, a bizarre technical issue with my blog reared its...