A Reader is Born
I have never been a fast reader, but from my first adult book, First Blood by David Morrell, which I read at the tender age of 10, I fell in love with the written word. Not all of it. The dry material...
View ArticleThe Devil is in the Details
I started watching Devil in Ohio from Netflix which has really interesting premise. In fact it reminds me somewhat of The Chidren of Red Peak by author, Craig DiLouie. In DiLouies book, children, now...
View ArticleLIFE ON THE LAMB
How I got here… I recently watched a George Clooney film, THE TENDER BAR, based on the memoir by J. R. Moehringer. I’m not going to review the movie other than to say I enjoyed the story. It also...
View ArticleFUNERAL FOR A FRIEND
Okay, time for a funny trucking story from the old days with my good friend, Brian Halford as the boss. Brian had started a company called, Roadline Transport. We hauled freight, mainly to the eastern...
View ArticleBLOGGING DAHMER
The last two Highwayman books were heavily researched, but my fascination with true crime goes back much farther than the publication of my first novel, The Equinox which is a horror novel about a...
View ArticleBLOGGING DAHMER 2.0
Well, I am one episode from finishing Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer story and as with any Netflix series, I am inclined to go back and fact check some of the storyline. Although, I haven’t seen any...
View ArticleTHANKSGIVING THOUGHTS
Stormy and I stopped celebrating thanksgiving after my mother died, October 11th, 2002. That was the last thanksgiving in which our family gathered to eat turkey and give thanks. It’s not that this is...
View ArticleHow Darth Vader stole my Spirit of Halloween
and the little girl who ressurrected it. When I lived in Smithville, Ontario, Stormy and I would decorate for Halloween. Zombies. Witches. Vampires, Michael Myers and even the nefarious Skinwalker from...
View ArticleCan’t we all just get along?
Something I have never done, is attack another writer, or their work. I don’t do this because I understand how hard it is to build a readership without a fellow writer torpedoing you. There are writers...
View ArticleThe Social Media Grind
Learning the “do’s” and “don’t” in the world of nothing and everything! I have been on social media for years, but I am only now beginning to understand it’s importance as a medium for for finding...
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