Eight Very Bad Nights
Coming this fall, a very special anthology perfect for the holidays: Eight Very Bad Nights -- 11 crime stories by some of the masters of the genre and some up-and-coming [...]
The Living Desert
It's been ten years since my wife stumbled on a crime scene just beyond our backyard. I wrote about it for The Rumpus back then, but I thought I'd add [...]
“Paladin” by Tod Goldberg
As we end the year, a special gift for devoted readers: a free copy of the short story "Paladin" which first appeared in the amazing anthology Playing Games. If you're [...]
Gangsters Don’t Die Playlist
I'm always listening to music when I write. Sometimes it's just to get me into a mood, sometimes it's to serve as a defacto soundtrack for the scene I'm writing, [...]
Why Book Scammers Shouldn’t Call Me
There's a popular scam where a woman called "Julia Victoria" calls and offers you a book deal at Harper Collins. Well. I had some free time on my hands, so [...]
THE LOW DESERT Bonus Story!
Not every story I wrote during THE LOW DESERT period ended up making it into the final draft of the book, for any number of reasons...but the main thing was [...]