This is a recurring theme for many writers and the model for most initially. Stephen King worked as a substitute teacher moonlighting in an Industrial Laundry. I’ve heard Joe Lansdale recount his work in blue-collar and trying to earn a living on low wages while writing in the early days. These are the folks that …
I’m not a huge fan of Old Style Pilsner, but I feel inclined to have the prairie beer from time to time as a reminder that I live on the prairies. As if the winters weren’t enough reminder? So, here we are in 2022, the wreck of two previous years sinking behind us like two …
When it’s happening you’re having the time of your life. The world outside that piece is in another galaxy. You are in Pittsburgh with a cop suffering PTSD. You are in Bucharest where the assassins gather to take on the FBI. It’s crazy, amazing, funny, heartbreaking, and scary.
RANDOM THOUGHTS AND RAMBLINGS ON WRITING! Bring on the suffering! That’s a running joke with writers, but I’m sure it is interpreted in many different ways. Like: It is through long periods of suffering from which we draw inspiration. Or: We suffer in our quest to earn our stripes. Maybe: We need to prove our …
Welcome to the Sh!t Show! The Highwayman series isn’t my first flirtation with serial murder. In my first novel, THE EQUINOX, an evil spirit known as a skinwalker forms an unholy alliance with a pedophile child killer. The marrying of the supernatural and the real wasn’t all that hard because both creatures personify real evil …
PART III – AN IMPRESSION IN MURDER The Case of Russell Williams a serial killer in the making. On January 28, 2010, Jessica Lloyd went missing from her home in Belleville, leading the investigators to suspect foul play. Canvassing the neighvborhood for witnesses, police were alerted by a neighbor of a suspicious SUV parked beside …
PART II – THE CASE OF THE COED KILLER When I decided to start the Highwayman series, I spent most of the creation process in the cab of a truck running up and down the road turning over ideas in my head. I coupled this with research, sometimes on audiobooks, reading true crime, and watching …
PART I – THE MONSTERS WHO WALK AMONG US I have always had an interest in true-crime and the enigma of serial murder. In writing, I often find myself drawn to the serial killer as the definitive monster. Mostly, because they’re real, which makes them more terrifying than DRACULA or the zombies of THE WALKING …