In mid-May, the Turin International Book Festival was held in Turin, Italy. My Italian publisher (yes, I now have an Italian publisher!) La Corte Editore, exhibited at the festival. They had more than 100 different titles for sale at the event, and of those titles, a new book called Le Radici del Buio was the […]
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 […]
This was announced today: The book Crystal Lake Publishing announced today is Flesh of All Sorrows, a dark police-procedural thriller. When Crystal Lake asked me to write a little something about it, here’s what I gave them: “Flesh of All Sorrows began with a question: What would happen to a child who was raised by a […]
There are a few things to talk about, so consider this kind of a potpourri post (but without the dried flowers and other fragrances). First, I have not been posting here much, in part because social media seems to have largely taken the place of blogs, and in part because there’s been a technical issue […]
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 […]
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 […]
I don’t post every passing thought or action or bit of news on this blog, because that’s not really why I have it. Those things are more appropriate for social media (of which I probably have too many, including Facebook (separate pages for personal stuff, book and writing-specific stuff, and Silverado Press publishing news, and […]
Through most of the 1990s, I worked for comics legend Jim Lee–then, as now, one of the most popular and creative artists in the business–at what was alternately called Homage Studios, Aegis Entertainment, and WildStorm Productions. I was initially brought in to write the backs of some trading cards featuring Jim’s series WildC.A.T.S: Covert Action […]
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 […]
Author Pearl Zane Grey (who dropped the Pearl early on) was the first superstar of Western fiction. He grew up reading dime novels, but the first time he wrote a story of his own, his father tore it to pieces and beat Zane for wasting his time on trivialities. Zane persisted, and although he went […]
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 […]
It’s almost Christmas again. This year, I’m playing Santa Claus and giving readers some goodies! I have all kinds of bargains for you! First, a special note–in this year’s Best of the West section, the kind folks at True West Magazine once again wrote up new imprint Silverado Press, which launched with my Western short-story […]
Silverado Press–the imprint that Howard Weinstein and I have launched through writers’ collective Crazy 8 Press–is getting all kinds of…well, press, lately. Here’s an interview with me that ran in the current issue of True West magazine (in which I also review a book–my first review for TW). And below is a piece that just […]
Half of the short stories in my new collection Byrd’s Luck & Other Stories are “weird westerns”–that is, western stories blended with elements of horror fiction (weird westerns can encompass horror, science fiction, fantasy, and various subgenres thereof, but I tend toward horror). Now a new anthology is up on Kickstarter, in which I have […]
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 […]
On September 6, 1995, StormWatch #28, written by me with art by Ron Lim and Robert Jones, hit the racks at comic shops across the country. The regular creative team on the StormWatch title was running late, and they needed a couple of months to catch up, so I was asked to write two fill-in […]
My first professional fiction sale was in 1988–a short story sold to a prestigious science fiction anthology called Full Spectrum. My first novel–Gen13: Netherwar, written with Christopher Golden, came out in 1999. Since then I’ve written dozens of books, sometimes at a pace of 4 a year and maybe hitting 5 in some years. But […]
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, […]
This week, I got copies of my forthcoming police-procedural mystery The Squad, the first in the three-book (so far) Major Crimes Squad: Phoenix series. It’s available for preorder now, wherever books are sold, and it officially launches on September 27. The second book, The Storm, follows on October 18, and The Castle arrives in November. […]
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 […]
Over on Facebook, I mentioned that I had finished the third book in my Major Crimes Squad: Phoenix series (out of three contracted novels), and pal Rodney Hom asked how I researched such topics. I decided that the response was longer than a FB message could accommodate, so decided to post here instead. Some background: […]