I recently picked-up the newest Hard Case Crime title—at least it was the newest title when I picked it up—and couldn't help a smile whe...

It's been awhile since the last installment of Zingers and since everyone has been beating down the doors to my email inquiring just whe...

I’m a sucker for a good first line—one that grabs me by the throat and pulls me kicking and screaming into a story. It not only sells the no...

I love the first few lines of novels. When they are done well they set the tone, theme, and just about everything else that makes a story a ...

We all know the rules: the first few sentences of a novel have to reach out and grab us. If they don’t we generally pass on the novel and mo...

First lines. We have all picked an unknown novel off the shelves of a favorite bookstore, thumbed to the beginning and read the first line ...