I interviewed Ryan Wick about his forthcoming novel Safe Cracker, hand to hand combat and picking locks. Behold! The third installment of Crime Wave is on Ink Heist. https://inkheist.com/2020/04/02/crime-wave-3-picking-locks-with-ryan-wick/...
People have been sharing work to help us pass the time during the pandemic lock down, so here are the opening pages to Six Girl Smile, (aka Mister Madame), my current WIP. Six Girl Smile By John C. Foster CHAPTER ONE 1. “Go to Hell, Wrecker,” the old man said....
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The good folks at "What Are You Afraid Of Podcast are including an audio sample of THE ISLE in Episode 134. Here's a description of the episode: We are back with episode 134: I MOVED ON TOP OF A FREAKING NATIVE BURIAL GROUND IN LANCASTER (True Story!) Author...
2020 is here and it's time for my brief and futile effort at organizing my office for the year's writing effort. Current project: a crime novel titled MISTER MADAME. (Why is the picture tilted? I have no idea). ...