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'...

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

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

  Back in 2007, I was pissed that every New York publisher rejected Small Crimes (some of them two or more times), and I got even more pisse...

Publishers Weekly weighs in on my upcoming (Oct. 1st) EVERYBODY LIES IN HELL: This clever depiction of hell explores the lies that peopl...

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...

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...

I've made my short story, MIND PRISON , which was originally published in Crime Factory First Shift, available as a $0.99 kindle ebook...