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Looking For Writers

This one is for the writers amongst you. Over the last few years, I’ve developed a number of online writing courses for Sisters In Crime. The workshops haven’t been available outside of their membership until now. I’m planning on having a different […]

HAW CREEK HORROR

It’s been a pretty crappy last few weeks with canceled projects and events due to the Corona virus, but finally a shaft of light! I won HAW CREEK HORROR‘s contest for real life ghost stories.  I saw the call for true stories […]

Authors Give Back

Ebook distributor, Smashwords, is having an “Authors Give Back” special sale.  So for the next 30 days, a large number of my books are 30% off. This is includes some of my French language titles and the sale includes all formats to […]

Forgotten Books

It’s a new year and that means I receive annual royalty statements for a couple of my books. One such book was LOWLIFES. It’s been a pretty successful book, but the publisher said, “Royalties have fallen off the edge of a cliff. […]

The First 20 Years

The New Year marks twenty years since my first published work, which was a short story in a science fiction magazine.  I thought I would mark this personal landmark moment with some stats: More than 20 books published. Had my work translated […]

Stocker Stuffers!!

If you would like to get an autographed book for that special someone (even if that special someone is you) go to my bookshop.  Use promo code XMAS10, you’ll get 10% off your order.  If you live outside of the US, please […]

Talk To Me At CAPITAL CRIMES

If you live in the Sacramento area, I’m going to be the guest Capitol Crimes where I will be discussing Dangerous Coworkers…the story behind his novel TERMINATED, the third book in the Bay Area Quartet.  I’ll probably tell some other stories too.  […]

Halloween: MY OTHER SISTER

It’s Halloween so you’re entitled to a spooky story…however, this is one is true. So please enjoy… MY OTHER SISTER I was seven when I met my other sister. As a child, it wasn’t uncommon for me to wake up during the […]

Halloween Specials

It’s Halloween and a couple of my Halloween scares written under my pen name, Simon Janus, are on sale this week at Amazon. In THE SCRUBS, James Jeter, the notorious serial killer with a sixth sense, holds court inside London’s Wormwood Scrubs […]