The HOCH SHOP by Leigh Lundin I stopped at a book store off Orlando’s International Drive, called Best Used Books II. At leat I think it was II; it could have been 11, but I doubt it, considering the ongoing doom and gloom about reading in America. You’ll recognize the store without my having to […]

WIKI by Leigh Lundin Rather than lacking attention, having ADD means almost everything interests me. Often I start to research a project or story, and I turn to the internet and become lost for hours trailing the bread crumbs of follow-up links. For a couple of years, I’ve been caught in a particularly insidious cerebral […]

COURTING DISASTER by Leigh Lundin Late one Sunday, I had been remodeling an apartment off Orlando’s South Trail which has, to put it delicately, a colorful reputation for hookers and strip clubs. Working for me was a neighborhood kid, a reprobate Jinx who has a way of attracting disasters. A little after nine that night, […]

TECHNOLOGY BUZZ by Leigh Lundin Publishing is undergoing a fundamental shift. The shift is ePublishing, the progenitor of eBooks. If this shift is to become paradigm, Amazon wants to be a player. Professional writers associations are trying to grapple with the phenomenon, which has become a divisive issue. Proponents contend that eBooks are cheaper, easier […]

BLURB! (‘scuse me) by Leigh Lundin Whereas writers ideally welcome critique, they are considerably more trepidatious about reviews. Private critiques help guide the writer. Public reviews come after a work is published and are out there for the world to see. Reviews are in magazines, in newspapers, on the radio, and they’re all over the […]

REMEMBRANCER by Leigh Lundin “Into the vat of water boiling with lye, he heaved the body…” This week, I’ve been working on a story set in central Indiana and I’ll risk repeating personal background I’ve touched upon before. In Shelby County, I grew up on the last of the farms which had been in the […]

PLANES, TRAINS, and INTELLECT DRAINS by Leigh Lundin Once upon a time, good manners dictated we shut off the television when company visits. These days, some think it’s impolite not to have a television going while entertaining guests. No, this isn’t a rant against television; this is a complaint about the ubiquity of mindless TV. […]