Rebecca Cantrell suggested I post this (mostly) tongue-in-cheek list I made for her, so here you go: 1. Imagine your audience naked. Or, i...

Re: posting this from Open Culture with thanks to Dan Colman. After Seth Harwood got his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he began publis...

Print media is suffering.   The New York Times  ran an article yesterday entitled,  In Boston, Paper's Peril Hits a Nerve.    In order t...

That’s what thriller author David Morrell once advised me about writing novels. At first, I wasn’t sure what he meant. After all, a novel is...

Okay, so this is going to get a lot of play among the thriller community. As reported in UK trade publication, The Bookseller , three Britis...

I can remember using a typewriter on one of my many unpublished novels back in the mid ‘80s. Soon afterward, two friends pulled me kicking a...

As some of you may know by now, May 1st is International Buy Indie Day. Artists, musicians, and writers are teaming up to support local inde...

People love an underdog. The reaction around the world to British singer Susan Boyle’s recent audition on B ritain’s Got Talent makes that...

I’ve always enjoyed reading journalist Don Graves’ column CANADIAN MYSTERIES in The Hamilton Spectator. So I was thrilled when he gave LET ...

Running on a few hours sleep, I slung on a Kevlar vest over my shirt, checked the charge on my radio, and walked down the corridor to the do...