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So, once again we enter into the field of “that’s nice.” The award you see above is given to me because my novel, “Naked Lies,” was a finalist in the Comedy category of the Claymore Awards. The Claymores are given out during the Killer Nashville writer’s conference. I was a finalist with ten other authors.Continue reading “Is Close Good Enough?”

It is a sign of high intelligence that a person is disorganized. I must be a friggin’ genius. I sit in my “office” in lovely Barstow, temperature only 110 degrees today. Yeah, the Alaskan breezes are running through. The “office” is filled with a basket of unfinished writing in many different notebooks. A box ofContinue reading “Disorganized”

This week’s object of outrage is a song by a country singer in which he warns us city slickers to stay out of small towns or those “good ol’ boys” are gonna whup our asses. To listen to this guy, you’d think that there’s been an epidemic of grandmas getting car jacked. Liquor Stores beingContinue reading “Try That In A Big Town”

Yes, I know. I let myself go. It was all those dinners of fried chicken and armadillo ice cream. A moment on the lips, forever on the hips. Oh, and all those summer days spent staring at the sun waiting for an eclipse. Wasn’t there supposed to be one today? Not to mention the thousandsContinue reading “She Was Beautiful, Now It’s Hard To Look At Her”

Do you love Freedom? Are you Into Liberty? Does the thought of someone taking away your favorite right boil you in anger? You might think that makes you an American. Does it? What does freedom mean? Ask a Democrat and they’ll tell you it’s the right to make decisions about your own body. Ask aContinue reading “Are You A Real American?”

The day comes on, I don’t know why I see your ice blue eyes, cool, serene I don’t know what to say, Josephine. 2. My youth is now a myth to me I gaze at you in reverie Was there ever a time when your eyes were green And we could have been together, Josephine?Continue reading “Josephine”

So I’m at the breakfast table at the California Crime Writer’s Conference two weeks ago, pondering my sliced fruit and muffin. One of the presenters, a pleasant woman who gave an interesting talk on how to put sex in your stories (her conclusion: Very carefully), sits down with me despite the fact that I haveContinue reading “The Question”

Perry Mason was a terrible lawyer. Yeah, I know he never lost a case. Luck. Pure Luck. No, a boy who once sat enthralled while Raymond Burr brought the irascible and dynamic lawyer to life on the little screen, I look at these shows now and want to yell at the screen. Gotta go talkContinue reading “My Beef With Perry”

My Angel sat down next to me as I dozed on the couch. “Pretty good month, eh?” my angel said. “Cover of Hitchcock. On a Writer’s Panel at a conference. No one out looking for you with a gun.” “Leave my ex-wife out of this,” I said sleepily. “Really, we did some good stuff thisContinue reading “Advice from My Angel”

31 Most Beautiful Women Of All Time Scarlett Johannsen’s Sordid Past Boyfriends Obscenely Rich Writers The Sexiest Man Alive Top 1000 Too Smart For Their Own Good Billionaires And Their Gold-digging Brides Billionaires And Their Gold-digging Husbands The 20 Most Ripped Men Alive Nice Guys Who Finished First Monkey Men And Their Gorgeous Women Nobel’sContinue reading “Stories I Will Never Appear In”