Dan Brown wrote his story about Da Vinci. I wrote the other story about Leonardo Da Vinci. The rarely told one about the cave he visi...

Any author who isn't considering opening up their own publishing imprint in 2017 is living in the fucking dark ages. Pardon the F wo...

Is there anything more inspiring than the local news headlines when seeking out an idea for your fiction? Who doesn't like true lies...

"Don't go down into the cellar, mommy..." Okay, I know that the last thing some people can imagine is frying a cute li...

"Don't go down into the cellar, mommy..." Okay, I know that the last thing some people can imagine is frying a cute li...

Back in the old days (I'm talking the late 1990s here), when I wrote my first book for Delacorte Press, there was only one way to pub...

"Man's life is flashing before his eyes...." The first line in my novel, Moonlight Falls, still causes chills to run u...

I did a reading in New York this past week as a part of the Mysterious Bookstore launch for Orchard Grove , my new standalone noir nov...

A very Hemingway Christmas... I don't want to fall into that, "It's Christmas and time for reflection thing," becaus...

Papa defends freedom with a pen and gin in his canteen. Couple observations. First, Bloobmberg reports today that Hemingway's 196...

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."--EH Last night I packed my bag (that's right, bag, as in one carry-on ...

You blink and summer, you sadly discover, has passed you by. Actually, it went by faster than a blink, which life in general seems to...

How ISIS has Fun in the Summer Sun It's been way too long since I've posted here. But if I have an excuse or excuses, it/th...

KU.2 is here it seems to have some authors confused. Me included. I get that authors are now paid for what readers read in terms...

David Sweat and Richard Matt, on the lamb in Upstate NY More than a few readers have asked me if I'm going to write about the el...

Nominated for ITW's Best Paperback Original... Ten years ago I was down and out... Literally. After a stellar launch and a q...

The famous (or infamous) Medina in Fez is a near impossible to navigate maze of Medieval corridors and alleyways surrounded on a...