Murder in Mind! Wading into the Pulp. How do you like it, Hardboiled or over easy? Is Charles Williams underrated? Also, making the case for Hard Case Crime.

She was waiting at the bottom of the stairs, chewing the nails off the fingers of her left hand. I came out of the room and closed the door softly behind me. “What do you want to do with the body? I asked. “What do …

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The Perils of being a “Seat of the pants” writer. I haven’t written in over a week, and here’s why . . .

As usual I was just “letting ‘er rip.” I was tooling along, my fingers fluttering across the keyboard. It was a joyride. Great scenes were popping in my head for further down the road. I was stopping on occasion to write a brief bit of …

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The Twilight Zone, Curiosity, and Peering behind curtains–a continuation of the last post, sort of, with marbles in the mix.

I love weird, Twilight Zone type suspense stories. I love reading those types of stories and writing them. Not sure that I really associated my writing with The Twilight Zone that much until I wrote the story, “Myra’s Wedding,” which is included in my book, …

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The Red Kimono reviews, writing Sci-fi, The Twilight Zone, and peering behind curtains.

The first couple of reviews are in for The Red Kimono. I’m excited. So far, so good. I’m used to writing horror, mystery and Twilight Zone type stories. This is my first foray into the Sci-fi world. I feel as though I’m pretty capable of …

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