I have always enjoyed attending author events. I remember hearing Raymond Feist speak for a very long time about creating Midkemia, once his D&D-based realm and also the setting for his Riftwar universe. Hearing Seth Harwood talk about the origins of The Maltese Jordans at Porter Square Books was wonderful, partially because it was wonderful […]
The Sound of Ground – An Interview and Reading by Yours Truly
I did an interview today with Seth Harwood discussing the evolution of private eye Adrian Tannhauser, a little bit of my own evolution, and I even read a little bit from my first published short story “Green River.” Check it out right here! Would you say that he’s (Adrian Tannhauser) out of the mold of […]
“Eighteen at Cedar Junction”
The latest Tannhauser adventure has just been published in Ground Fiction: Vol. 2, Issue 1. In “Eighteen at Cedar Junction”, Adrian has a meeting at Dermody’s, an old neighborhood saloon that refuses gentrification because it likes being in a neighborhood that has bad habits. “Thank you for coming,” he said. “May I offer you a […]
More Ground to Cover!
Volume 2, Issue 1 from Ground Fiction is coming! This new issue presents twelve short stories, including “Jesse Belden”, a never-before-seen excerpt from Valentine by New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Wetmore. Valentine: A Novel explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town in the 1970s. It […]
(Not) By the Book
Andrew Peterson isn’t embarrassed for not having read a classic book yet: I think that books usually come to us when we’re ready to read them. Since the New York Times Book Review has not seen fit to interview this author (yet) for their By the Book feature, I decided to answer their most common […]
Covering more Ground!
Some Good News for 2021! I’m thrilled to announce that my next Tannhauser short story, “Eighteen at Cedar Junction” will be published in Ground Fiction, VOL. 2 in March 2021! * * *