IN RAPTURE WITH A HORROR AUTHOR by Deborah Elliott-Upton I’ve just returned from an intensive week long workshop with Bram Stoker and Anthony Award Nominee, Alexandra Sokoloff. Alex won ITW’s Thriller Award for Best Short Fiction with her story, “The Edge of Seventeen.” It is my opinion that we never stop learning—or rather, we should […]

CRIME WAVE by Rob Lopresti Today I am going to bring you up to date on some crime news from the Evergreen State. Why should I let Leigh and Florida have all the fun? We’ll start at the north end and slide down. Don’t let your little light shine Whatcom County, where I live, bumps […]

MELODIE’S MEANDERINGS by Melodie Johnson Howe It is summer and time to bring out the garden furniture. But wait! Something evil lurks! FOLDING CHAIR FRUSTRATION What? You don’t have Folding Chair Frustration? It’s a new syndrome. At least according to the commercial I just watched. It’s the trauma one encounters when attempting to unfold a […]

FAN FAVORITES by Janice Law One of the nice things about book chats—and blogs—is the chance to promote favorite authors. Some, perennial inhabitants of the best seller lists, need no introduction. But there are others, equally worthy in the fan’s estimation, who never reach the popularity their quality would suggest. Magdalen Nabb Two of those […]

The DEAN of SOUL by Leigh Lundin David Dean has appeared in Criminal Brief and Ellery Queen numerous times, but this quarter he appears on EQ’s covers twice in a row featuring his latest ‘Tomorrow’s Dead’ and ‘Praying Mantis’. David will tell you about ‘Praying Mantis’, but I’ll take a moment to talk about ‘Tomorrow’s […]

IN THEIR SPARE TIME by John M. Floyd Since most of what we discuss at this blog involves crime fiction, it makes sense that most of the series protagonists we discuss are connected in some way to law enforcement. Detectives, beat cops, marshals, sheriffs, lawyers, federal agents, etc. They’re the heroes because they’re in the […]

(GIVE ME THAT) ARMCHAIR DETECTION by Steven Steinbock Last week I told you about two mystery fan publications, C.A.D.S. and Old-Time Detection. In order to avoid using the word fanzine, I dubbed them both portmanteaus. My suggestion was cheeky, and my dislike of the f-word overstated. But I’ve had time to think about it, and […]