X WHY? Part V: Deep in the Heart of Texas by Leigh Lundin Travis Erwin is hard to miss. In person, he’s 6’5 Texan and he has about 600,000 fans and friends, many on the internet, where you’ll find one of his stories. He has another in the Range ‘Riters Anthology and is slated to […]

X WHY NOT? Part IV by Leigh Lundin My X Why project has been a combined learning and teaching experience. Without exception, everyone has been supportive and helpful. Several women wrote in on topics that were surprising, even shocking. I’ll sort through these today. White Women and Black Widows Three correspondents complained about women getting […]

X WHY? Part III: FEMALE POV by Leigh Lundin It’s a psychological suspense story. Teased by her sister and other girls, beset by a lack of self-esteem, she opts for mammoplasty without the knowledge of her husband, is drawn into an affair, and becomes embroiled in a murder plot. A few weeks ago, James suggested […]

X WHY? Part II: MALE POV by Leigh Lundin A few weeks ago, James suggested I write an article or two about getting inside the head of the opposite sex. When I first began writing, I didn’t know we were expected to write from the viewpoint of our own gender; I merely picked the viewpoint […]

X WHY? Part I. by Leigh Lundin Unlike south Florida, New York, New Mexico, or widely scattered parts of Texas where mystery writers congregate, I’ve met only one other mystery writer in the Orlando area, Tom Cavanagh, who has a life of his own over at Embry-Riddle University. Locally, the majority of genre authors are […]

DEATH ‘n’ TEXAS by Leigh Lundin "Earlier this month, hundreds of people witnessed a moving display of justice and compassion at the Innocence Project’s annual benefit in New York. While pianist Jonathan Batiste played “What a Wonderful World” at the close of the event, two attendees got up on stage to dance, but not just […]

NUMB3RS, Part 1: LIKE, DUDE! by Leigh Lundin The factors that first drew me to mysteries were the puzzles, the clues, picking out the salient elements and making sense out of them. Those were the same reasons that drew me into writing operating systems software: A computer is a big, complex puzzle, and I enjoyed […]