I’ve been reading and writing since I was old enough
to turn the page and hold a pencil. My reading has been more successful than my
writing, but I’m making progress. My debut novel, Blaze! Red Rock Rampage, the fifteenth title in the Blaze! Adult Western series and its sequel, sort of, Blaze! Spanish Gold, were released in 2017 from Rough Edges Press. 2017 also saw a couple of my short stories hit print, “Merrick”, a hybrid crime-western heist story as an Amazon Kindle exclusive and a bleak noir tale, “A Calculated Risk” is in Down & Out: The Magazine, Vol 1, Iss. 2. As for 2018, we’ll see what happens.
My non-fiction writing tends towards books and criticism. I write the “Short & Sweet: Short Stories Considered” column for Mystery Scene Magazine, and also regularly review mystery, crime, and thrillers for its august pages. My essays, “Reading Ed Gorman” and “Easy to Read: A Story of
Rick Ollerman” were published in the Stark House Press editions of The Autumn Dead / The Night Remembers by Ed Gorman and Truth Always Kills by Rick Ollerman, respectively.
As for my reading, it started in the usual places — The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew — and then turned to adventure fiction — Alistair MacLean,
Jack Higgins, David Morrell — before taking a brief foray into the techno-craze
of my middle-teens — Tom Clancy, Larry Bond, Charles D. Taylor. I discovered the
bliss of crime fiction in my early twenties, and have never looked back. It has
been the center of my reading for nearly twenty years, and it will likely
remain so for many years to come.
You can contact me at zulu1611@yahoo.com
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