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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...

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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Chapter 1 The woman’s expensive attire and pale, buttery skin marked her as wabipu, an outsider, and Peyton Kalagho figured she’d never...

Loved this first issue! Gail Simone is at the top of her game in this one, and Adriana Melo's art is fantastic!

I've been seeing commercials for this one all over the place. I know it will probably be predictable, but I like the idea of a mom taking...

I had an absolute blast with this one--despite the cliffhanger ending. The various missions for the teams played well and kept up a...