May is National Short Story Month. I love short stories to read and write. There’s something explosive about a good short story. So in honor of National Short Story Month, here’s a selection of my short stories. The Taskmasters from Asking For […]
Time to time, we all need an attitude adjustment and this seemed like a good one to take to heart… “If you’re going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they’ll kill you.”~George Bernard Shaw
CASTING CALL: Give me your name! I’m the worst when it comes to creating characters names and I need names for the follow-up to Did Not Finish, the second in the Aidy Westlake mystery which’ll be out in 2012. I have a […]
I’m breaking with tradition for my Hump Day Post and posting something by the great John Cleese. I just wish I could be this funny. 🙂 ALERTS TO TERROR THREATS IN 2011 EUROPEBy John Cleese The English are feeling the pinch in […]
I’m going to go off course this week when it comes to all things We All Fall Down. Instead discussing the story’s background, I’m going with a “Behind the Music” kind of tale relating to the making of what is the most […]
For anyone heading to Vegas this weekend. “The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money.”~J. H. Jowett
Bill Crider gives LOWLIFES a very write-up. Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine: PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Int…: “I’m an old guy, so now and then I get a little jolt of future shock like I did when I […]
I recorded a TV interview in Oregon last Saturday and it went pretty well, but it reminded of my first time on TV. Glamour is rarely that glamourous. THE GLAMOUR OF TV I was on the telly! A few weeks ago, I […]
I saw my author-friend, Tony Broadbent, not too long ago. We hail from the same hometown back in the old country. We got to chatting and he gave me a pat on the head and told me, “You’re like the Gary Oldman […]
Last year, my wife suffered a cancer scare that resulted a benign tumor being removed. In her honor, I’m riding in a 100-mile bike ride to raise money for two cancer clinics. I’ve raised over a $1100 so far. In addition to […]