Hey, it’s primary season yet? “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” –Mark Twain
I can’t handle orzo pasta. Like the Eskimos and the concept of snow, Italians have 300 hundreds different words for pasta. For those of you who don’t know which is orzo, it looks like a giant grain of rice. And that’s […]
I’m the toastmaster for Bouchercon 2014 in sunny Long Beach, California. Bouchercon is the world mystery convention and it’s kind of an Olympics for the crime fiction community. There’s no award for the 100 meters sprint, although if you’re a criminal, a […]
Determination is everything. “The winner ain’t the one with the fastest car its the one who refuses to lose.” ~Dale Earnhardt
For my birthday, I saw a stage production of SLEUTH. A few minutes into it, someone complained, “I don’t understand what they’re saying.” Well, that person was in for a long night. As George Bernard Shaw said, ‘England and America are […]
As it was my birthday this week, I’ve turned to one of my favorite quotes, mainly because I’m still not ready to put away those childish things.“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I […]
I’ve had a little glut of interviews of late, so here they are for your reading and listening pleasure: Authors On The Air radio interview (60minutes)Technology FM radio interview about the book industry (30minutes)My “60 Seconds With…” interview with Reviewing The EvidenceIndieAuthorLand’s […]
It’s my birthday so I’m taking a day off and handing SHELF LIFE over to my short story nemesis, Dana Cameron. She’s got a new book out tomorrow so here’s a little bit about it. Take it away, Dana. **warning: Contains spoilers […]
If you’re going to do it, do it right!“Never go to bed mad — stay up and fight.”~Phyllis Diller
The future! It’s so full of potential—until it arrives. Then it seems to lose something when we catch up with a point in time that we’ve looked upon in wonder or trepidation (if you’re a dystopian kind of a person). The reason […]