Tag: Mystery

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

Pulp Fiction Time Travel on Sale for 99 cents

  Romance, mystery, pulp fiction, unscrupulous writers, and even more unscrupulous publishers….oh, and Time Travel, too.  It’s all there in Take Back Tomorrow, on sale now for just 99 cents at Amazon. This is part of an Amazon Countdown deal, so the price will go up in increments for the rest of the week. 41 Amazon…
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November 13, 2013 0

Too Close, Too Comfortable

Whenever it’s time to start talking about the art of revision with my college writing students, I usually begin by saying if they want to revise effectively they first need to put some distance between themselves and what they’ve drafted. Being too close to one’s material often causes a writer to see it for what…
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June 25, 2013 4

New Release! Unfinished Business (Ace Stubble Series)

I’ve released my new novella today, part of my Ace Stubble series. Ace is a lawyer who specializes in working with the undead and paranormal. In his last adventure, Dead Man’s Hand, he took on zombies and mobsters (and mobster zombies). In the new book, Unfinished Business, Ace gets caught up in a ghostly mystery…
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March 24, 2013 0

Time Travel–Fantasy or Science Fiction?

Back when I had a literary agent sending my work out to major publishers, we ran into a little problem–editors at the major publishing houses didn’t know how to categorize my books, especially Take Back Tomorrow. It’s science fiction, a time travel novel set in 1940 Los Angeles. But it’s also a mystery, as the protagonist…
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October 31, 2012 3