A big boost from a little Book Mouse
Reading to the Book Mouse crowd in my tough-guy pink shirtOne of the first things I remember crime uber agent Stacia Decker telling me was to make friends with indie book stores – how they were the...
View ArticleObamacare and the terrorists formerly known as republicans
So I don’t blog for a couple of months, then, when I finally decide to break radio silence, it’s about Obamacare? Sure, why not. Go ahead and alienate at least half the population no matter what I say....
View ArticleGREED is good
It’s official peeps, book number two has a cover. And it’s another beauty. I thought the Exhibit A folk had caught lightning in a bottle with PENANCE, but the cover for GREED is even better. Seriously,...
View ArticleLucky bastard
Woke up before 5am today. Too much to do, too much on my mind, so going back to sleep was out of the question. Figured I might was well get up, get a jump on things, maybe back my to-do list far enough...
View ArticlePaying the gas bill
Haven’t posted in forever. Funny what pushes my buttons. I’m paying the bills. For a few years now, I’ve paid any bill that allows it online through my bank’s bill payment system. But my old bank got...
View ArticleThe Kill Malmon Flash Fiction Challenge
Maybe you heard about the whole Exhibit A thing. They were my publisher, but they’ve gone belly up. Since they published three of my books (would have been four if they had held on a few more months) I...
View ArticleOderint Dum Metuant
Yesterday, I announced the Kill Dan Malmon Flash Fiction Challenge. It would be unfair to enter my own contest, especially since I’m the one handing out the dough, but I just couldn’t resist killing...
View ArticleTaking a bike ride on a summer evening
Dear guy on the skateboard on the Gilman trail, Not a lot of skateboarders on the trail, but just to be clear I mean you, in the baggy black shorts that hang way past your knees, the faded black...
View ArticleChicago Roulette – Don’t bet on black
More than 80 people were shot in Chicago over the July 4th weekend. Nine died. The following week, I was in Texas. And almost every time somebody heard I was from the Chicago area, the shootings were...
View ArticleA Dirty Dozen – the Twelve Deaths of Dan Malmon
I asked you to kill Dan Malmon and you delivered. The interwebs are covered in his blood spatter. OK, I’m a couple days late getting this up, but the final results of the Kill Dan Malmon Flash Fiction...
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