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Mel

Feb 21
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
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
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 w...

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Mel

Jan 6
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
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
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 provid...

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Mel

Jan 5
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 reade...

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Mel

Jan 4
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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Wow! I'm definitely gonna have to do better!

Mel

Jan 4
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 bus...

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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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So What Does It Take For Someone To Buy A Book?

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 fi...

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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 t...

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HOW I CAME TO WRITE THE CAPTAIN NGOLA STORIES

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 pi...

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Mel

Jan 5, 2019
1 min

Captain Ngola!

I've written a couple novella about Captain Ngola, a black sea captain who was once a slave in the Caribbean but took command of his own ...

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Mel

Dec 27, 2018
1 min

HARDMAN: THE GOLDEN GIRL AND ALL

Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2641271773?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

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HARDMAN: THE CHARLESTON KNIFE IS BACK IN TOWN

Mel

Dec 27, 2018
1 min

HARDMAN: THE CHARLESTON KNIFE IS BACK IN TOWN

Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2641225748?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

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