It occurred to me a few days ago that I hadn’t posted anything here in a while, but not until I logged in today did I realize that I haven’t posted anything this year. Sorry for the long absence. It’s not that I haven’t had anything to say, it’s more that I’ve had too much […]
This is the time of year when folks look back to what they’ve accomplished over the last twelve months, and for writers that typically means listing the works they published during the year. From that perspective, 2025 was a pretty slow year. But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t busy. Let’s look back, first, then we’ll […]
Nicholas Diak, an Edgar Rice Burroughs fan and scholar of peplum cinema (don’t know what that is? Visit his site and find out!) has posted a wide-ranging interview with me. Included in it are some relatively obscure fact about my background and interests, along with news about my next book project (I’m about halfway through […]
For as long as this website and blog have been active, my posts here have hardly received any comments. Real ones, that is. Spam ones by the thousands, but a tiny handful of legitimate ones. That’s okay. I’m very visible and available on social media, and in today’s world, that’s where most two-way and multi-way […]
During the course of my life as a fan and my career as a writer/editor/publisher of comics, books, and other stuff, I’ve been to a great many conventions and fannish events of all sorts. I’ve never tried to count them all, and am sure now that I couldn’t, but it might be a hundred or […]
After 30 straight years of attending the San Diego Comic-Con–the grandaddy of them all–I stopped going. That show is amazing…but it’s huge, and so so so crowded. I was there the year an exhibitor put out free shopping bags, and the crowd surged toward it so suddenly that a woman caught up in the swarm […]
It’s a busy time in the Old West! There are a few things going on, and they’re all related. First, I have a short story in a brand-spankin’-new anthology, in which I share a table of contents with multiple friends and literary heroes. The book–Lawless: New Stories of the American West, focuses on outlaws. My […]
Well, it’s been a year. Some parts were good, some bad, as with most years. Outwardly, it doesn’t seem like my most productive year ever because I only released one book–Byrd’s Luck & Other Western Stories (details at the link). That said, the book launched a whole new western fiction imprint, Silverado Press (and was […]
Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell and I haven’t done a lot of events for the past few years, thanks mostly to Covid. Even fewer of those have been in the Phoenix, Arizona area (where we live). But on Saturday, February 25, we’ll be guests at the brand-spankin’-new Arizona Comicbook Arts Festival! This one-day show is focused on […]
During 2022, I had a lot of books released–the three book Cody Cavanaugh Western series, Tarzan and the Forest of Stone, and then the three book Major Crimes Squad: Phoenix procedural thriller series. The Castle, the third of these, is out on Tuesday, November 8. That’ll be the last new book release for a while, […]
There’s lots of news in this one, so I’ll get right to it! The first two books in my Major Crimes Squad: Phoenix police-procedural mystery series are up on Amazon for pre-order. As of this moment, only the Kindle ebooks are there, but the paperback versions should follow soon. The two are The Squad and […]
It’s been a tough few years for most of us. We’ve endured and mostly survived an ongoing pandemic, though many are still reeling from the loss of family and friends to the disease. Here in our household, we’ve all had Covid, with varying degrees of severity, but we’re all still here, thankfully. But like many […]
Several years ago, I had the distinct pleasure of writing a novel about one of my all-time favorite superheroes, Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man. The novel–a blend of super-hero action and horror–was Spider-Man: Requiem, and it boasted a terrific cover painting by my pal J.H. Williams III. Last year, the novel was adapted into an audiobook, narrated […]
The Tucson Festival of Books has become one of the country’s biggest book events. It’s been virtual for the last two years, but this year it’s in-person again, March 12-13, and Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell and I will be there, in our usual spot (for those of you who’ve attended before), Booth #116. That booth was […]
Welcome to my brand-spankin’-new snazzy website. Look around and you’ll see all kinds of cool stuff. You can sort the publications by series, by genre, by original vs. tie-in, etc. You can quickly see what’s comics, what’s nonfiction, what’s short fiction, and more. And from now on, my blog will be right here on the […]