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Chasing Killers!
For Thanksgiving this year, my wife wanted to do something different. She picked up an UNSOLVED CASE FILES: COLD CASE MYSTERY MURDER...
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Mel
- Jun 5, 2021
- 3 min
A Small Town Trapped in Time!
When I was a kid, I fell in love with The Twilight Zone. Those thirty-minute episodes promised a road trip into twisted might-have-beens...
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Mel
- Apr 29, 2021
- 1 min
New stories!
Here are some tales of adventure. Out now, a Pecos Bill novella in Pulp Mythology 2! Pecos Bill and the Sea Hag of the Gulf of Mexico. I...
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Mel
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
Had me going.
I have to admit, this one had me going for a bit--but it looked SO familiar. For good reason. Catfished! :(
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Mel
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min
CW'S NEW BATWOMAN
I have to admit, I was sad to see Ruby Rose go. Mostly because I thought her departure signaled the end of the BATWOMAN series just as it...
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Mel
- Jan 22, 2021
- 7 min
TEACHING IN THE PANDEMIC CLASSROOM
Yes, the pandemic has greatly affected my teaching. I get to know my students in and out of the classroom. Professional Writing requires...
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Mel
- Jan 6, 2021
- 3 min
Lois Lane, Reporter
I remember reading Lois Lane comics when I was a kid. They weren't my favorites, but I would read them because Superman was in there, and...
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Mel
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
Splatter Westerns???
Yep, pardner, you read that right. Splatter Westerns. I'd noticed some of them ever' now and again, but I hadn't dove into them. There's...
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Mel
- Jan 5, 2021
- 1 min
PAPERBACK WARRIOR Podcast
This is a shoutout to Paperback Warrior! Some of the hardest working guys in men's action adventure. Eric and Tom, our hosts, have...
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Mel
- Jan 5, 2021
- 2 min
BONE CANYON by Lee Goldberg
This is the second book in Lee Goldberg's Eve Ronin series. I really enjoyed the first one. Eve is an immensely likeable hero. Some...
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Mel
- Jan 4, 2021
- 2 min
Watching THE WATCH
Okay, so I watched these weird commercials over the last couple weeks. The thing that most caught my attention was the smoky cloud dragon...
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Mel
- Jan 4, 2021
- 2 min
Wow! I'm definitely gonna have to do better!
It's been over a year since I last posted, and that's inexcusable. My biggest excuse, even though it's not allowed, is that I've been...
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Mel
- Dec 18, 2019
- 2 min
LOST HILLS by Lee Goldberg
I've been reading Lee Goldberg for years, but I've never seen him write anything like Lost Hills, the first book of a new police series....
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Mel
- Dec 16, 2019
- 8 min
Bass Reeves Versus the Dinosaur Bone!
No, don't start imagining the famous Indian Territories marshal roping a T-Rex (although that would be awesome!). I'm going to give you a...
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Mel
- Dec 15, 2019
- 7 min
When I Was 16 in 1974...
...I was working weekends and summers at the Fina Station on the corner of Main and Oak Streets in Ada, Oklahoma. I was getting paid the...
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Mel
- Dec 14, 2019
- 2 min
THE RARE COIN SCORE by Richard Stark
I love the old Gold Medal covers I grew up looking at as a kid, so I’m featuring the one above instead of going with an image of the new...
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Mel
- Dec 12, 2019
- 5 min
So What Does It Take For Someone To Buy A Book?
That's a question every writer, agent, and publisher wants to know. Those professionals have oftentimes spent a ton of money trying to...
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Mel
- Dec 12, 2019
- 2 min
COLD STORAGE by David Koepp
There’s a lot of buzz behind Cold Storage. The author worked on several movie scripts, including Jurassic Park and Spider-Man, both films...
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Mel
- Dec 12, 2019
- 2 min
KILLING QUARRY by Max Allan Collins
Quarry’s back! And this time HE’S the target. And boy, his face is red! He just wants to make sure that remains a figure of speech. For...
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Mel
- Jan 6, 2019
- 4 min
HOW I CAME TO WRITE THE CAPTAIN NGOLA STORIES
I was a young man when Ace Books reprinted the Conan the Barbarian books in the late 1960s and 1970s, and for a period thereafter. Ace...
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