A FISTFUL of VALOR by Leigh Lundin Today, meet a heroine. Her name is Marisol Valles García, a 20-year-old criminology student. She’s the new police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico (near Ciudad Juarez and Guadalupe) a law officer who doesn’t carry a gun but packs two personal bodyguards. I’m […]

THE KING OF SHORTS by John M. Floyd Several of my colleagues and our readers have had much to say recently about the short stories of Stephen King. Sure, he’s best known for his novels, and I love ’em, but let it never be said that this emperor has no shorts. All of them are […]

FIELD TRIPS by Steven Steinbock I haven’t unpacked, so excuse the mess. I’ve been on the road for the last ten days. Bouchercon was a blast. If you haven’t already, you can read more about it on James Lincoln Warren’s, Melodie’s, and Robert’s columns from earlier this week. Plenty of light debauchery with my mysterious […]

ANOTHER VIEW by Deborah Elliott-Upton I’m feeling a kinship with actor Jimmy Stewart’s character in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”. Yesterday, I fell off a ladder and hurt my leg from the ankle to knee. I’m not in a wheelchair as L. B. Jeffries was, but I am sitting life out for a few days with […]

I DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THIS by Rob Lopresti I don’t have time to be writing this. Just got back from Bouchercon. Got a million things to do. At Bouchercon they give you a big pile of books to take home. I left half of them in a pile there. Don’t have time to read […]

WRITERS GONE WILD by Melodie Johnson Howe Bouchercon is an event where writers, who spend most of their time in self imposed solitary confinement, are let loose in a hotel without proper supervision and begin to talk and drink, and drink and talk. Now and then they make it to a panel where they speak […]

BOUCHERCON 2010 SHORT STORY PANEL Posted by James Lincoln Warren Here’s the recording I made of our Bouchercon panel on Friday, October 15, featuring Melodie Johnson Howe, Robert Lopresti, Steve Steinbock, yours truly, Tim Wohlforth, and Angela Zeman, and moderated by Jill Amadio. The title of the panel was “In Case of Madness”, which made […]