I admit it, as far as Valentine’s Day goes, I’ve always been a pretty big cynic (not regarding love, of which I am an enormous admirer to say the least). This year I resolve to give the day its due, in word and deed at least. I have to say that a holiday celebrating love […]

I was talking briefly recently with a couple of authors about this story that is fact but sounded much more like a fiction book (or screenplay) written to produce over-dramatized terror for writers: underground legions of vicious, rabid “critics” on Goodreads that scoured the site blog feeds for any author who mentioned unseemly or complained about […]

Okay, I get it—we’re writers and we are putting our written words out there and no way is everyone going to love everything we write. It’s just not possible. Some of the writers history has deemed so worthy as to award Pulitzers and myriad other literary awards had their very skills disparaged by “legitimate” critics […]

It’s been forever since I’ve blogged. No wait, forever plus a few days. And nights. It just seems there should have been 728 hours build into the standard day. I mean, please, I’m a writer and I struggle to find time to WRITE. Thing is, I miss blogging. Blogging for me is where I get […]

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When I wrote my third book Blood Land, thus beginning the life and series of Sheriff James Pruett, there was a town and a people and a landscape I aimed to capture—the ones, in fact, where I grew up and grew up with. A friend posted this gorgeously-done video by the Chamber of Commerce and […]

I haven’t blogged in a while (again) but it’s mostly been because I am getting ready to kick off the long overdue 90-day release of Blood Land with a decent-sized marketing firm and I owe them nine blogs which they are going to put out on some widely-read blogs, so if I am blogging at […]

We spend so much time flopping around like a trout on the shore of our little ponds, trying desperately for someone with some REAL clout (not Klout, the most ridiculous app-driven invention since Digg) to notice our work that some of us are even willing to pull our books from every other outlet, sales point, […]

I felt like I should say something, being from Colorado and actually having worked (and once lived) a couple miles down the road from the Aurora Century 16 theater where the unspeakable atrocity occurred yesterday. I used the word “unspeakable” intentionally. In this day and age nothing could be further from the truth. From TMZ […]