I just got my dirty paws on the latest artwork to appear on a future Hard Case Crime novel. It is deliciously lurid and boldly vibrant. The ...

The 2006 Shamus Award Nominees are Announced The Private Eye Writer's of America have announced the 2006 nominees for their annual Shamu...

Through Wyoming Eyes, by Ken Rand My review of Ken Rand's most recent chapbook, Through Wyoming Eyes, has been posted on SFReader.com ....

An Interview with Western Writer, Elmer Kelton There is a great interview with writer Elmer Kelton currently online at The American Enterpri...

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont I was pointed to a review of a new "pulp" novel on Yahoo! News, The Chinatown Peri...

An Interview with John D. MacDonald I ran across an interview with the one and only John D. MacDonald (you know, the guy who wrote the Travi...

Pulp Covers for Classic Novels Is this the mark of the revitalization of 1950s pulp? First we have a major national publisher, Hard Case Cri...

Parker is Back! I just bumped into Richard Stark's latest Parker novel on Amazon--it is amazing what aimless surfing / time-killing wil...

New Jack Ketchum & Richard Laymon titles from Leisure Books Good news on the horror front. Leisure Books has two new Richard Laymon titl...

I read a western a few months ago titled Vengeance Valley by Richard Wheeler. It is a mining camp story about a prospector named Hard Luck...

Welcome to Grave Tapping. Summer has finally arrived on the high desert--it was an unusually wet winter. The ski resorts had an unbelievable...