26 Feb 2020 Will the Real Donald Westlake Please Stand Up?
Ink Heist ran my second Crime Wave column, Will the Real Donald Westlake Please Stand Up? You can read about this titan of crime fiction here...
February 2020
21 Feb 2020 Mister Madame is approaching
Just a quick update to let you know that the crime novel MISTER MADAME is coming along swimmingly. I expect the rough to be done by the end of March and will have more updates as things proceed. ...
19 Feb 2020 True Horror is Revealed in Several Forms
Laurel Hightower said this in her review of THE ISLE: There's an excellent blurb on the front of this book along the lines of it being from one of Nathanial Hawthorne's nightmares. It's a great quote, because it credits the way Foster has captured that archaic...
16 Feb 2020 Crime Wave #2
The Crime Wave article for February is off to the gentlemen of Ink Heist. This time I used the wayback machine to examine my favorite Crime writer, Richard Stark. Here's a sample: When a fresh faced guy in a Chevy offered him a lift, Parker told...
02 Feb 2020 Ink Heist Podcast Interview
Last night Linda Jones and I spent two hours talking with Rich Duncan, Laurel Hightower and Shane Keene - the Ink Heist crew. We covered all manner of subjects about writing and narrating and our favorite books but also went seriously off the rails and...
01 Feb 2020 This is what’s happening
Quick updates: The horror novel-to-be Spite House is pushed back while I work on the crime novel, Mister Madame, about an ex-con (and former run away) tracking down a kind who ran away from home to the mean streets of New York. It's coming along swimmingly and I...