RAZORED ZEN

It's been something of a dream of mine to work on a book series beside other writers whose work I value. Finally, it's come true. La...

Since 2007, I’ve lived in the country outside Abita Springs, Louisiana, on a dirt road surrounded by woods. It lies in a sparse community ...

From the post that follows, don’t imagine that I’m lonely for human companionship. Far from it. Lana is here. I’ve spoken with my son and ...

Lana and I just finished watching the final season of Game of Thrones last night. It seems like everyone else in the world has already sha...

Most years I do a little more for Halloween than I've done this year. I have been busy writing, though, and some good things should star...

I've done a reading report each of the last several years here on my blog. Time for another one. I've mentioned it here before but m...

The trees and ditches are spattered with yellow along my walk this morning. In the woods it’s mostly leaves changing into their autumn att...

Lee Forman, a fine writer himself and an editor over at Sirens Call , conducted an interview with me a while back and it appears today on hi...

A whale surfaces. Exhales. Foul air spumes thirty feet high. The droplets fall, winking with sunlight beneath the blue sky. The whale dr...

I read everything I could get my hands on as a kid, but my top three favorite genres were Science Fiction/Fantasy, Westerns, and Animal st...

Speculations: Poetry from the Weird Poets Society , 2018: Mind’s Eye Publications, 123 pages, Edited by Frank Coffman, Illustrated by David ...

Spirit Vessels : By Dennis Formento: Foothills Publishing, 2018, 78 pages. ISBN: 978-0-921053-27-9. Spirit Vessels is the first c...

The Best of the West, edited by Joe R. Lansdale, subtitled “An anthology of western writing from the western writers of America.” Doubleda...

I had a somewhat unusual lucid dream last night. For those of you who don't know, a lucid dream is one in which you realize you're d...

Capsule Reviews: 1: Faraday: The Iron Horse , by James Reasoner. James Reasoner creates some iconic characters and sets up a western ser...

So, the Causeway bridge is marked every 1/10 of a mile with a sign and is 24 miles across. For me coming across in the morning, the distance...

As far as publications and other literary endeavors go, January 2019 has been the most successful month that I’ve had in a long time. Quit...

Klaw, by W. L. Fieldhouse: Tower Books, 1980, 208 pages.  I've known about this series for a while but had not read any. This is the ...

2018 was a helluva year. It was the year my blog nearly died. I made only 20 posts this year. I used to posts 100s, but, partly out of laz...

I’m very excited to announce that my first full-length western, and the first novel under my penname, Tyler Boone, is ready for release fr...