RAZORED ZEN

  Drowning are the Dead, Brent Towns. Rough Edges Press, 2022. 285 pages. This is an excellent mystery story wrapped in a very attractive pa...

SPACERS SNARLED IN THE HAIR OF COMETS : By Bruce Boston. Mind’s Eye Publications, 2022, 39 pages. (Introduction by Andrew Darlington). This ...

In 1972, my father—J. V. Gramlich—died on this date. Of a heart attack. I was 13. He was 58. He seemed old to me at the time but so much you...

T he Talisman , by Stephen King and Peter Straub. 646 pages. Viking. You know how when you’ve been constipated for three days and you fina...

Here’s part 4, and our last installment of, Why Authors Use Pseudonyms. I hope you enjoy. 4. One of the major reasons why writers write un...

Welcome to part 3 of our series: Why Authors Use Pseudonyms. Let’s get right to it. 3. Writers who write across different genres may use p...

Welcome to part 2 of why authors might use pseudonyms instead of their real names. Let’s not waste any time: 2. Whether we like it or not....

I get asked quite often why I’ve had work published under names other than my own. A thought that often accompanies this question is: “don’t...

  January 1, 2022. Beneath a warm wind that rocks the pines, I walk through the aftermath of the war. I watched last night as 2021 fought a ...

Yolande Du Bois Irvin has died. She was 89. Almost always when her name was mentioned someone added that she was the granddaughter of W.E.B...

I ’ve been thinking a lot this last week about narrative drive. What it is. How it works. And why it works. Every story I’ve read has been f...

Who could have thought that one of my favorite memories of all time would involve tennis shoes. Here’s a picture of mine. I love the Velcro ...

Have to admit I was a little scared when Paul Bishop of Wolfpack Publishing offered me a chance to write the first book in The Ranger: Conch...

I was working on book 4 in the Concho: Texas Ranger series this morning when an odd event occurred. Concho is half Kickapoo and there's ...

GALLIMAUFRY : By Bruce Boston. Plum White Press, 2021, 134 pages. Bruce Boston is a Bram Stoker Award winner, but that says little about t...

 Here is my review of The Lost Empire of Sol anthology, which was a labor of many years and at least 2 incarnations. The initial discussion ...

I cut my teeth on Sword and Planet fiction, first reading the Barsoom stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and then the many tales by those ERB ...

I'm thrilled to have my very first full-length western novel included in this handsome box set of 8 action packed novels of the west. Mi...

  The Withering , by Ashley Dioses: Jackanapes Press, 135 pages. Poetry. I picked up a signed copy of this book from the author and read it ...

I dreamt of crows last night, millions of them swirling like black blades in an apocalyptic sky full of flames and clouds. I was a teenager ...