When the organizers of the 2024 Killer Nashville conference announced the finalists for this year’s Silver Falchion Awards, I was delighted to see that Dead West had made the cut as a finalist in the suspense category. You can see all of the shortlists here. … Continue readingDead West Makes the Cut
I was excited to learn that Dead West has been named an Amazon Editors’ Pick in their list of Best Books of 2023. It caps the year off nicely! If you have yet to pick up your copy, you can grab it here in various formats. … Continue readingBest Books of the Year
I’m about as excited about the upcoming publication of Dead West, the third book in the Endings series, as I have been about any of the more than dozen books I have written. That debut will happen on September 5th. In anticipation of that, the … Continue readingHere Comes Dead West
I’m much too candid and tell too many secrets on a recent episode the SinC Writer’s podcast. Interviewer Julie Hennrikus did too good a job! (Spoiler alert: if you listen long enough, I cry.) You can find the podcast on your favorite app, or download … Continue readingAnd then I cried
Like a lot of people, I’ve been having some fun playing with artificial intelligence via ChatGPT. Most recently, I asked it to recommend books for people who liked my 2021 novel Endings, which is now the first of the Endings series. The third book in … Continue readingIf You Liked That…
In the rollicking ride that is contemporary social media, it turns out it’s easy to take your eye off the prize. The prize in this case is your attention. Instagram. Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and more (and more and more) all demand material of one sort … Continue readingHello. It’s Me.