Category: Mysteries & Thrillers

As a lover of all things Victorian I could not write a compilation of horror stories without including a story about the infamous Jack the Ripper....

A funny thing happened on the way to this interview… but a bit of background first. I met author William Todd on a sort of writers’ forum on Facebook. He was seeking reviews for Sherlock Holmes: and the Mystery of the...

I’ve been writing about football for a long time now. Over the years, NFL players, coaches, owners, general managers and officials have done a lot of boneheaded things. So, in addition to all the tailgate type treats,...

Thanksgiving is only a few short weeks away and that mean Santa will be doing his annual breaking and entering routine before we know it. Being the kind and generous soul that I am, I’ve decided...

And it appears James “Jimmy” McMillan III and I have something in common. We both tried to do something significant, resulting in two tiny blips on one big ass radar. Here’s the difference. Jimmy’s political aspirations are dead and buried. I,...

  When I decided to sponsor a Parlor City Paradise photo contest, my biggest fear, really my only fear, was that I wouldn’t get any submissions worthy of being incorporated into the book’s cover design. That’s why I snuck in that...

When I first began researching how to become a successful independently published author, it immediately became clear that it really can’t be done. Okay, that’s not entirely true but most self published authors, heck, most authors...

So here’s something you haven’t heard me say before. I’m ahead of schedule. In my last update, I said I’d like to have my first round of Parlor City Paradise revisions completed by Christmas. It’s the 4th of December and I’m...

     A Shot at Redemption, my debut thriller novel, was released in early January of last year.  Since then, I’ve published roughly 75 blog posts totaling something in the neighborhood of 80,000 words. You can about double that if you factor...

When I first started blogging many months ago, I discussed the importance of social media to the independent author. I listen to a lot of writing-based podcasts, read other people’s blogs, and even talked to some authors who were much further...