Sex, lies, and insurance fraud. The tagline for my first novel, Northcoast Shakedown, says it all. I wrote the novel after only two short stories about Cleveland-based PI Nick Kepler, “Race Card,” which would not see the light of day until Northcoast was published, and “A Walk in the Rain.” In those stories, I knew…
I spend a lot of time talking here about Holland Bay, the novel forthcoming from Down & Out Books in November. But what else have I written. I’ve written a lot of short stories, some after I “quit” writing and “quit crime fiction,” both momentary lapses of reason. There’s a list of available short stories…
As a wise man once said, mesa back! What happened? Crime wasn’t selling. I couldn’t close the deal with the last agent I talked to. Frankly, after fifteen years, I got sick of the whole deal and went over to science fiction. The sales there have been spectacular, too, but at least I was having…