RAZORED ZEN

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...

Scott Harris was kind enough to interview me about both reading and writing westerns. I had a few things to say. Check it out here : 

Since my way of figuring out my reading year is a bit different, I always explain in these blog posts. I count my reading year through my bi...

On September 29, a young woman of my acquaintance killed herself. I had not met her in real life but that doesn’t mean I didn’t know her. ...

Doorbells at Dusk, edited by Evans Light, Corpus Press, 2018, 280 pages. Released just in time for Halloween, Doorbells at Dusk pres...

So, let me drop this casually on you. I’m in a magazine with Robert E. Howard. You might respond with, “Robert E. Howard died quite a long...

On Saturday, August the 4 th , I had a heart attack. I was walking down the dirt road by my house when I felt sudden constriction in my ch...

The Mighty Warriors, Edited by Robert M. Price, Ulthar Press, 2018, 239 pages. If you’re like this nearing 60-year-old, you may re...

Stepsons of Terra, by Robert Silverberg: Ace, 174 pages. According to the introduction of this book by Silverberg, Stepsons of Ter...

The Snake-Man’s Bane , by Howie K. Bentley, is a collection of heroic fantasy short stories from Wild Hunt Books. It contains: The Snake-M...

Unsheathed: An Epic Fantasy Collection . 2018: Hydra Publications. ISBN = 9781940466682 Edited by Stuart Thaman. Contains: 9 fanta...

I've joined an online western community called Rope and Wire , which is the brain child of Scott Gese. There's a tremendous amount t...

Well, I took off half of March and all of April from the blog. I just needed a break. Sorry to all those whose posts I’ve missed, but Ap...

A new collection of Epic Fantasy is out from Hydra Publications called "Unsheathed." This contains a story by me called "Wher...

A few lawyer jokes for your morning. 1. A lawyer dies and is standing before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates for judgment. The lawye...

Though I’d heard his name often enough, I didn’t discover Harlan Coben as a reader until I picked up “The Woods” by him in February of 201...

So, I’ve now read my first Tolstoy. Not War and Peace . I haven’t the strength yet. I read a collection called The Kreutzer Sonata , whi...