Rough Edges

Following in a long tradition -- established last year -- here's the wrap-up on the reading and writing I did in 2005. I read 156 books ...

2 fatalities, 116 houses destroyed, dozens more damaged . . . This is almost certainly the biggest disaster ever to hit Cross Plains. Here...

As some of you may know, Texas has been plagued recently by wildfires caused by high winds and an extended drought. Yesterday one of these ...

Today marks 29 years since I sold my first short story and became a professional writer. I wrote about that a year ago, so I won’t repeat t...

I’ve finished reading the first of the books I got for Christmas, David Morrell’s recent suspense novel CREEPERS. This one drew a lot of co...

So, the kids got you up early and the presents have all been opened, what do you do now? Well, if you have a copy of the anthology WORLDS O...

On his blog today , Lee Goldberg brought up the subject of when he knew he wanted to be a writer and discussed some of his early efforts alo...

Here's the cover for the second TALES FROM DEADWOOD novel, THE GAMBLERS, which will be on sale May 2, 2006. I know that's a long tim...

Back when I was a kid, one of the comic books I read occasionally was a DC science-fiction title called MYSTERY IN SPACE, which featured the...

9 degrees on our back porch this morning, and there's a nice thick layer of ice on everything. We never got any snow, just sleet. But ...