The Next Crime Reads

I am currently on track to read or listen to 100 books in 2022. I’ll probably slow down next year,… Read more The Next Crime Reads

The Early Days

Once upon a time, I wrote for the helluvit. Writing was my happy place. I’d rather knuckle down on a… Read more The Early Days

A friend of mine is on a 1970s binge as he tries to finish a novel. It could be nostalgia.… Read more When?

I attempted to write a second follow-up to Holland Bay this summer. It reached sixty thousand words when I realized… Read more Point of View

National Novel Writing Month. Write a 50,000-word novel in the month of November. Whoever thought this up knew how to… Read more NaNoWriMo

I wrote here a while back about how great it was to rediscover vinyl. During the lockdown, as we were… Read more The Return Of Vinyl Friday

There are a lot of complaints about Hollywood. Too political. Not political enough. The most egregious (and really, the most… Read more It’s A Melting Pot, So Melt, Dammit

1999 was a good year for cult classics. If you’re an IT guy or even just an office drone, then… Read more Fight Club

They call Bosch: Legacy a spinoff, but is it? Frasier was a spinoff of Cheers, but Frasier Crane was not… Read more Bosch: Legacy

Recently, on Sleuthsayers, I wrote about the PI and how the archetype might work in the present day. Gone is… Read more The PI And The Pandemic