I should be writing fiction instead of writing about it, but I must continue my year-end summations. I’m off tomorrow, so I intend to get down to serious stuff. Anyway, I read some pretty good novels this past year. Much … Continue reading
Because I can’t resist the date. This particular confluence of numerical coincidence won’t happen again this century. Proper appreciation must be shown. Or, as Stephen Jay Gould once said, “I have always and dearly loved calendrical questions because they display … Continue reading
I really like Neil deGrasse Tyson. He’s my kinda scientist and he speaks well. Please watch the entire video before continuing with my little bit. Okay, there’s a lot in that with which I agree. In fact, he gets to … Continue reading
There is, in University City, which is attached to St. Louis with Washington University as a buffer, a cool little coffeehouse/restaurant called Meshuggah’s. They play host to a literary event called Noir at the Bar, which my friend Scott Phillips … Continue reading
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, February 28th, I’ll be reading at a venue that is somewhat a departure for me. It will be at a little ongoing literary rumpus called Noir At the Bar—here’s a blog post to give you a taste—in … Continue reading
It seems unlikely I’ll finish another book before this Sunday—if I do it will probably be Stefanie Pintoff‘s second Simon Ziele mystery, A Curtain Falls. I read the first in the series, In The Shadow of Gotham, not too long … Continue reading
So…I’m again rewriting the historical mystery. Thought I was done with this draft and had only to await the edits from my most excellent agent, but alas, I have this impish ethical streak that won’t let me just slide… Basically, … Continue reading
So I have now attended a Bouchercon. I’ve attended so many SF conventions that they’ve become, if not normal, at least comfortable. I pretty much know what to expect. Bouchercon, while in many ways similar to an SF convention, is … Continue reading
I’m attending Bouchercon this week, here in St. Louis. In the last few years I’ve been drifting toward crime fiction, partly in an attempt to cultivate new fields with a view toward getting my rather stagnant career moving, partly because … Continue reading
Really, I’ve been up since 5:20 already. We have company coming into town, so most of the day so far has been taken up with cleaning the house and arranging the guest room—which is at all other times my office. … Continue reading