The Captain by Seymour Shubin was nominated for an Edgar for Best Mystery Novel in 1983. Publisher's Weekly had the following to say abo...

My first sale While I was waiting for word from Houghton Miflin I was frequently visiting Spenser’s Mystery Bookstore in downtown Boston, an...

Now what… Like every other author who writes their first book, the big question is now what? By the time I had the revisions done it was ear...

Starting my first novel, In His Shadow. The idea for my first novel came from listening to a PI on a radio show talking about a case of his ...

I'm going to be publishing these lessons learned every Wednesday, and it will be a regurgitation of everything I’ve gone through over t...

"Powerfully tense, reading this is like watching a car crash happen, as Joe thrashes like a landed fish trying to survive in a world se...

It just looks that way right now. Ed Gorman and I still have the 30s pulp noir issue, and it's shaping up to be one of our best and a fi...

There are these times when things happen... A few of these... First and only time I'm driving through Winslow, Arizona and as I hit down...

My first podcast, Dark Crime Fiction, Volume 1 can be found as an MP3 at: http://www.hardluckstories.com/podcasts/darkcrimevolume1.mp3 and a...

Two winners were selected for the best Bad Thoughts movie casts Mark Sullivan, Maryland Bill Shannon: Dean Winters Susan Shannon: Marisa Tom...