The Newest Lance Underphal Mystery
Here it is, nearly the middle of August (damn near my birthday) and I haven’t posted a blog since the end of July. What with all [...]
Lance Underphal is No Jack Reacher
For that matter, he’s no Harry Bosch or Dave Robicheaux either. Solving murders is about the only thing they all have in common. And in that [...]
Lance Underphal, Protagonist – More or Less
You think you have problems . . . This guy is a mess! Broke, old and sick—lost his wife in an accident with a cement truck [...]
Mystery Protagonist Lance Underphal – Some Back Story
Probably the coolest thing about writing fiction is you get to make shit up. And when it comes to full length mystery novels, there’s a whole [...]
Writing Fiction – What’s It All Mean?
The art of writing—really? Hmm, yes and no. There is the artistic side, the impulse to create an aesthetic work that is satisfying to one’s self [...]
How to Secure a Literary Agent—NOT
Having my first mystery novel under my belt, I was confident that all I had to do was get the manuscript in front of competent literary [...]
Publishing Mystery Stories
Nearly a year in the writing and the manuscript was finally finished. It was official, I was a mystery writer and I felt good about it. [...]
Writing The First Mystery Novel
A Story To Tell – Step One While the basic story elements for my first mystery novel were plucked from personal experience and local events, there [...]