by 40926pwpadmin | Jun 9, 2026 | Blog
I’m back home and still unpacking – physically and mentally – from ShortCon, the annual one-day writing conference in Alexandria, Virginia, for writers of short crime fiction. Launched in 2024, ShortCon focuses primarily on the writing craft, but also serves as a...
by 40926pwpadmin | Jun 1, 2026 | Blog
Sometime in the early 2000s, after reading a boatload of American and British literature in high school and college, and an even bigger boatload of crime novels and thrillers in the years after college, I caught the pulp fiction bug. Maybe it started with the Tarzan...
by 40926pwpadmin | May 28, 2026 | Blog
On the centennial of trumpeter and composer Miles Davis’ birth, there’s nothing I can say about him that hasn’t already been said by writers and historians far more knowledgeable about his music – and about jazz in general – than I will ever be. But I can remember the...
by 40926pwpadmin | May 25, 2026 | Blog
We let Wendel go yesterday. He was a 13-year-old collie-shepherd mix who joined our family in the fall of 2013. He was just ten weeks old at the time, and our kids were twelve and ten years old. Several months ago, he started having trouble getting up and down the...
by 40926pwpadmin | Apr 6, 2026 | Blog
Somewhere during my middle school years in the mid-1970s, I started dialing in to the late-night sci-fi/horror movie of the week that the CBS affiliate in Cleveland (WJW, Channel 8) aired every Friday night after the eleven o’clock news. I was probably twelve or...
