For a while it was trendy to call any crime fiction noir if it showed shades of gray. I have a much stricter definition of noir: there'...

  Black Cat Weekly allows me to write and get published unusual mystery and crime stories that don't fit the standard mystery magazines....

  Several promises I can make about Pariah . It's as "hell-on-wheels" a crime novel as you'll find Nothing I've writte...

  Pariah , which is now for the first time available as a kindle book, was originally published by Serpent's Tail in 2009 and was named ...

  Now that Pariah is available as a Kindle Book I'm revisiting Maureen Corrigan's Washington Post review of Pariah, which led to Pa...

I'm now writing what I call the Early Julius Katz stories--stories that take place before Julius met Lily Rosten in the first story titl...

  (an excerpt from Detectives and Spies) THREE sections. Four different types of mystery and crime stories. Whether it’s the brilliant B...

  "The puzzles are clever, and Zeltserman plays fair with readers. Stout devotees will be delighted with this loving homage." Publ...

  In the March/April issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Steven Steinbock offers the following review of Detectives and Spies in his Ju...

  Kindle and paperback editions of my latest collection are available now! Also, look for my new Steve Heller & Joe "Red" Sull...

  With 'Detective and Spies' coming out Dec. 12th, I gave a hard look at the paperback versions of my other Julius Katz books and en...

The Kindle Edition for A Killer's Essence is on sale now for $2.99! Things could've worked out so differently for this book if ...

My next novel EVERYBODY LIES IN HELL will be published by Eraserhead Press October 1st. From the back cover copy: Hell can be a tricky ...

THE INTERLOPER is now available as a paperback and kindle ebook ! THE INTERLOPER is made up of three parts: The Hunted & The Dame (bot...

  Julius Katz and Archie's latest case can be found in the upcoming June issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

From the May issue of Ellery Queen 1st place -- Archie Solves the Case by Dave Zeltserman 2nd place - Borrowed Time by Doug Allyn 3rd...

ON WRITING NOIR I was a member of a noir fiction discussion group for years where every six months or so we’d debate what constitutes noi...

From the article 'Gut Check Fiction and the Heathens Who Are Writing It' by Patrick L. Ledford "A heathen is a person who d...