RAZORED ZEN

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 ...

I don’t need to tell you about 2020 in general. We lived through it. Except for those of us who didn’t. And there were far too many who didn...

  30 th anniversary edition, 414 pages:  Harcourt, INC It took me a long time to watch the movie, The Princess Bride . I was put off by t...

Guest Post, By Sidney Williams: (Thanks to Charles for letting me drop by and chat here a bit.) I have a new hardboiled novel called Fool’...

I just discovered Thomas McNulty's Book Corral . Thomas is a lifelong reader, a collector, and a writer himself. He seems to have a part...

Though I didn’t grow up in the literal pulp era, I started reading paperback fiction in the 1960s and 70s that was a direct descendent of th...

Some of you may remember that I record my reading year from October 14 (my birthday) to October 13 of the next year. Then I typically give a...

There's a long tradition in pulp fiction of the masked avenger, the individual who dispenses justice at the point of a sword or through ...

Richard Prosch, over at Six-Gun Justice , recently asked me a few questions about writing and reading. It's mostly western related, but ...

I have some writer friends, professionals who make much of their living from writing, who finish one book and immediately start another. No ...

Quite a few years ago now I fell in love with the "Thieves World" anthology series. These were one of the very first "shared ...

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...