Living Dangerously

I’ve always been lucky to be surrounded by tough, strong women. My mother is a strong woman. In fact, when I think of emotional strength,...

Holy Zombie Crisis! There's going to be a full scale invasion of Yuma! What began as two writers driving six hours with their three Grea...

I'm a guest blogger over at Janice Gable Bashman's site today. I wrote an essay about writing fear. I talk about what scares me and ...

It's not often that I get the chance to listen to new music... music that hasn't already made the rounds and blasts from radios worl...

It's the week leading up to Lincoln's Birthday and I'm in a lot of places. The first place is on Gini Koch's website. Gini...

From Shardik Jones:The Sierra Vista Public Library hosted five authors for their annual Writer's Workshop. This year found Weston among ...

~Coming in March from Dark Regions Press~ Back Cover Copy for Multiplex Fandango by Weston Ochse Multiplex Fandango is subtitled “A West...

Hi all. Good news from the Land of Living Dangerously. It looks like my novel Empire of Salt and my short story Big Rock Candy Mountain have...

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Abaddon Books has hired Weston Ochse to write another shared-universe novel, this one for their Afterblight Chronicles ...

Cheating in the Virtual Classroom By Weston Ochse © 2011 I recently read an article called The Shadow Scholar . When originally published ...

I have love affair with music. Like most people, different music affects many different ways. Sometimes I'm happy to just go around lis...

Upcoming Events: Jan 17 – 23           ITW Roundtable Blog: Outlining and Plotting. Feb 5                    Sierra Vista Library: 2 nd Ann...

Today I begin an International Thriller Writer sponsored roundtable discussion “ Do you plot, plan, or outline? Or, do you just go where you...

Everyone's doing a list of best books of the year. Why should I be any different. I read as much as the next guy, albiet, my reading hab...

So, I just heard that my dear friend Michael Louis Calvillo has S tage 4 CUP . This stands for Carcinoma of Unknown Primary. Oh. My. God. ...

TOMORROW! Yvonne and I will be signing copies of our books for at the Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona. The book signing will o...