Through Wyoming Eyes is a collection of five short stories, vividly set in the open spaces of Wyoming , written by Ken Rand. In his introdu...

TOR Hardcover I've been in a sentimental mood recently; the past year or so. I've been reading, and rereading in some cases, a ...

This review originally went live at SFReader October 14, 2006, and since I found my copy a few days ago, at the bottom of a pile of books in...

I heard some exciting news today: Max McCoy's fine novel Hellfire Canyon has won the Spur Award for best paperback original. And it is ...

When Tom Broadbent is summoned to the family mansion in Santa Fe, New Mexico he finds his two older brothers impatiently trying to get a res...

I’m a nerd at heart. A few weeks ago I was at a local store and stumbled across the DVD set for season one of The Equalizer ; a television s...

A few evenings back I was watching a nature program on PBS--the type of thing with beautiful photography, a sad, desolate story about life a...

Merry Christmas, Murdock is the fourth novel written by Robert J. Ray to feature Orange County private eye Matt Murdock. Murdock is a form...

I have a new hobby. It's not much, but it keeps me sane when I'm stuck at my desk all day. I have a window, but man if I don't m...

I read something interesting over at David Morrell’s website: he likes the new film Rambo based on the character from his novel First Blood...

A month or so ago I received an email from Charles Ardai—I’m on the mailing list over at the Hard Case Crime website—with a teaser about HC...

This review originally went live on SFReader in October 2005. I thought this review rocked when I originally wrote it, but it didn't se...

Part One is Here . Death Valley was everything I have ever imagined. Vast. Desolate. Beautiful. There were more people at Death Valley than ...

The Korean Intercept is the fifth (by my count) novel Stephen Mertz has published under his own name in the past few years, and it is the f...

I've never been a letter writer. I don’t write letters to celebrities, writers, or anyone else I don’t know. In fact, the idea kind of e...

A few weeks ago I promised a few photographs of our Mojave Desert / Death Valley trip, and today, finally, I’m going to deliver. We flew int...

I’ve written about Harry Arnston before—I reviewed his novel Act of Passion earlier this year, and in that post I categorically stated that...

This is a review I wrote in 2005—it was published in the Fall 2005 issue of the small press magazine Night to Dawn . The review feels more ...

I'm usually a little slow in getting any kind bookworld news other than the latest titles coming out from my favorite writers and publis...

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...