PART III – WHERE FICTION AND FACTS COLLIDE I believe the approach of most writers of any given genre is to write what you know. Of course, unless you’re a cop and you want to write about things that relate to law enforcement and homicide you have to do research or someone, who is in …
The Mount Everest of insane “70s Italian movies.” Many folks know I am a huge fan of 1970s cult classics and not just in the horror genre. I got to see many more movies than most kids my age because I was a latchkey kid. My mom often worked two jobs and therefore was not …
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 readers. Twitter is something that I underestimated and was at one point quite flippant about. I mean, Twitter? Come …
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 out there whose work I would not recommend, but the judgement is not mine to hold. Hell, there are …
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 The Equinox. Every year it got a little bigger. My garage became a hang out for family and friends who came out for Halloween, …
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 a depressing time, although it was for awhile, we just stopped. Now, the kids are grown and far away, and one …
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 glaring errors. But Netflix likes to tinker with the evidence. Pinch of salt. The story itself is well written …
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 monster, but also happens to have a serial killer in it. I read extensively about serial killers like Ted Bundy, John …
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 seaboard of the United States, but we also went west as far as Nebraska. The dispatcher was a guy named …
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 stirred memories. I haven’t written a lot about myself. But I could identify with this movie’s …