MEL ODOM

For Thanksgiving this year, my wife wanted to do something different. She picked up an UNSOLVED CASE FILES: COLD CASE MYSTERY MURDER...

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...

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...

I have to admit, this one had me going for a bit--but it looked SO familiar. For good reason. Catfished! :(

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...

Yes, the pandemic has greatly affected my teaching. I get to know my students in and out of the classroom. Professional Writing requires...

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...

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...

This is a shoutout to Paperback Warrior! Some of the hardest working guys in men's action adventure. Eric and Tom, our hosts, have...

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...

Okay, so I watched these weird commercials over the last couple weeks. The thing that most caught my attention was the smoky cloud dragon...

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...

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....

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...

...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...

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...

That's a question every writer, agent, and publisher wants to know. Those professionals have oftentimes spent a ton of money trying to...

There’s a lot of buzz behind Cold Storage. The author worked on several movie scripts, including Jurassic Park and Spider-Man, both films...

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...

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...