Living Dangerously

Today my daughter joins the Navy. Alex, Yvonne and Zach - 2001 She's going to spend the next 8 weeks at Great Lakes, then a month i...

I saw the movie Revolver. This is not a review, but rather a comment on plot construction anyone can use, whether it be a screenwriter or a...

I've had quite a few emails and requests to provide an example of my advice on pitching your book (read Pitch It So They Can Hit It fir...

(Now with an example which can be found at this link ) Not to strain a metaphor, but most of you treat the batter as if he or she is your ...

The biggest novel of my career thusfar is gathering steam. SEAL Team 666 was recently mentioned in a New York Times article discussing the p...

For those of you who don't know who Count Gore de Vol is: Count Gore De Vol is a television horror host who originally appeared on Was...

Two things happened last weekend that opened my eyes a bit. I spent last Saturday and Sunday with 100,000 of my closest fans and friends a...

Don Damassa's review of Blood Ocean can be found here . "There's a fair amount of quasi-martial arts violence and a moder...

I'm a big fan of March Madness. I love college basketball. Well, really I love watching Tennessee Vols college basketball. But with the ...

Jamie Livingston is dead. I never knew him. The chance of us ever crossing paths while he was alive was as improbable as seeing the insi...

Where John Horner Jacobs calls me Bastard Ochse. Look! I have a new first name. John Horner Jacobs wrote this on his blog the other day.  ...

'll be at the Tucson Festival of Books tomorrow with 30,000 of my closest friends. I'm participating in a panel and will be signing...

Dear Brent, How's it going? I'm doing pretty well. You know, working hard, but looking forward to coming home to read some good ...

Reviews have been pouring in from sources such as the Financial Times of London to a young man who started reading again because of Blood Oc...

The finalists for the Bram Stoker Awards, presented by the Horror Writer's Association, came out last week. I won the Bram Stoker Award ...