Saturday, October 1. Day 11. If I didn't have this journal, I wouldn't know it's October. We load up on gasoline. Part of the trick is finding the right station. I see stations with crazy long lines. I find one that takes only 35 minutes.
Now with cash we go to a grocery store and buy some fresh fruit, bread and other basics.
While driving my wife's cell phone snags a signal for a moment. She sends...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Hurricane Journal
I am composing this journal as we go along but I don't know when I'll be able to post it. Excuse the rough editing. I've seen internet, anywhere, just once in the last three weeks and then for thirty minutes. When you see this, it will mean I found an internet connection somewhere again and had a chance to post it. I apologize to all those I've not been able to contact.
Monday, September 18. Zero...
Monday, September 18, 2017
October: National Don't Write a Novel Month
National Don't Write a Novel Month
The people over at National Novel Writing Month advocate that you write a novel over the course of November. Their motto is: The World Needs Your Novel. According to their website, over 500,000 participated in this event in 2015 alone. A word count of 50,000 words...
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Mystery Podcasts at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
EQMM Podcasts, listed by author and linked.
Updated with recent podcasts, September, 2017.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 76 years and counting, is the premium venue for short mystery fiction. They maintain a podcast with a Murderer's Row of murder-minded authors, now up to 95 entries with 99
...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Audio Recordings from the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine generously offers a free podcast
with well-narrated recent and classic mystery and thriller stories. I present below their 40 selections, arranged in alphabetical order by name of author, of the stories currently available for listening on your computer or
for...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
When Mysteries Become Political
Sometimes mysteries take on the major political issues of the day. Strangely, among that list I don't include most of le Carré's cold war thrillers. While some of his world-weary characters are true-believers and act out of a political consciousness, most are just doing their jobs or, often enough...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
A Review of Ruined Stones by Eric Reed
England during World War II possessed all the elements a mystery writer
could hope for. Thick fog mixed with coal dust cloaked the streets. With
the air raids and blackouts, a single lit candle could invite
destruction and one building ablaze could become a beacon to summon more
bombs. Death was...
Friday, June 30, 2017
A Complete Ranking of Mystery Television of the 1980s
Having previously undertaken to present the rankings of television mystery shows of the 1960s and 1970s, I thought I'd complete this quixotic quest by taking on the 1980s. This will be the last decade. I believe a number of the series presented below were down-rated because they debuted at the nexus...
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