Climbing on My Soap Box

I’m back on my soap box once again. On DorothyL, the premiere list for mystery fans and authors, they’ve been discussing the fact that Bouchercon has voted against discriminating against small press as far as allowing their authors to serve on panels. (They won’t let self-pubbed or those who paid to be published unless they’ve [...]

Remembering Rod Serling’s Night Gallery

Set in a shadowy museum of the outré, Night Gallery (NBC, 1970-1973) was a highly diverse anthology television series featuring tales in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction vein—all of which were introduced by a dark and disturbing collection of canvases unveiled by the museum’s “curator,” series host and creator Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone). [...]

Hangin’ Out

Book Lovers’ Fairs or Expos are great opportunities for networking in ‘author world,’ showcasing your  writing talents and generally, having a lot of fun.  Meeting fellow authors is a marvelous trip.  Most writer’s are unique in so many ways I truly appreciate.  Although I look forward to meeting and hanging out with a crazy, diverse bunch of writers, some of [...]

Virtual Book Tour

I’m on a virtual book tour for Kindred Spirits all month, and these are the places I’ll be until I post on this blog again:
Oct 15 http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com/
Oct 16 http://savvyverseandwit.blogspot.com/
Oct 17 http://bermudaonion.wordpress.com/
Oct 20 http://www.zensanity.blogspot.com/
Oct 21 http://thebookczar.blogspot.com/ and http://valleygirlmusings.blogspot.com/
Oct 22 http://valleygirlmusings.blogspot.com/
Oct 23 http://blogcritics.org/books/
Oct 24 http://reviewyourbook.com/recent_reviews.cfm
Oct 27 http://www.popsyndicate.com/books
Oct 28 http://www.popsyndicate.com/books
If you visit any of these blogs, please [...]

Backyard Fatality

As much as I love nature and nature loves me, I can’t seem to escape the occasional backyard fatality.
Their hunt is aggressive but manners demure, it wasn’t a cat, that’s for sure.
Feline free roamers with pure criminal intent are not nature to me.
Wildlife has little defense against efficient sport killers as these.
With cats, death is [...]

Interview with Paul Green, author of PETE DUEL: A BIOGRAPHY, now available on Share-a-Vision Radio

Most of us think of Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes, the amiable outlaw that he played so well on the short-lived but long-remembered television Western series, Alias Smith and Jones (ABC, 1971-1973). That, of course, was the image we saw on screen. Off screen, Pete Duel was a complex man who led an unpredictable and [...]

Relato NADIE SOSPECHA

Corría el decimotercer año del recién estrenado milenio, aniversario de la gran deflagración. Blenda y Ruth ya habían dejado de ser las alocadas colegialas que traían en jaque los esforzados desvelos de sus padres, atentos en toda ocasión para que aquellas varitas tiernas crecieran sin torcerse. Al fin parecía que [...]

Finally, I’m Back Again!

I have had a terrible time trying to get into this blog. I must be challenged in some way–no matter what I tried, no matter how many new passwords I tried, it just wouldn’t work. Finally, someone must have sprinkled magic dust over my keyboard, because it finally worked.
Do I have that much interesting to [...]