Rough Edges

(This post originally appeared in slightly different form on June 26, 2005.) Back in 1969, I picked up a couple of paperbacks in a drugst...

What's TRACTOR GIRL, you ask?  Well, it's my new hardboiled crime novel set in Brown County, Texas, in 1951 (or thereabouts).  If yo...

Okay, after giving THE ULTIMATES, VOLUME 1: SUPER-HUMAN a mixed review last week, I have to say that I enjoyed the second volume in the seri...

An update from Bob Randisi: Thrills! Chills! Dinner! Cocktails! Awards! The 30th annual PWA Shamus Awards Banquet will be Friday night,...

Bill Persky and Sam Denoff worked on THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW and wrote many of that series' classic episodes such as "That's My...

I spent the past three days in Austin , attending the 33 rd annual ArmadilloCon, the premier literary science fiction convention in the So...

This is another cover featuring a Cowboy, a Geezer, and a Redhead, but I don't think it was painted by Tom Lovell. (It might be; I don...

There I was, in the mood to read another Orrie Hitt novel, when what should arrive in my mailbox but an advance copy of the latest Stark Hou...

Here's another book trailer Livia made, for the Rancho Diablo series this time.