• Choice of Weapon: Lawn Mower

    Father attacked his son with chainsaw before son ran him over with lawn mower, police say https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1647350002 RELAX IT’S A HALLOWEEN GAG PHOTO Yup, that about says it all. In Bristol, TN a 76 year old man attacked his own son with a chain saw, and according to the article, his son (the victim) ran…

  • Savannah’s Pissed

    Savannah unamused by googly eyes placed on historic statue: ‘It’s a crime’ http://amp.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article219716780.html Guess who gets this case? The new guy in the Detective Bureau, that’s right. In Savannah, GA someone (read drunken SCAD nerds) put googly eye stickers on a monument to Nathaniel Greene. I had a civil war joke to make about this…

  • Ungentlemanly Warfare, Yup that’s a Real Term

    Quite possibly one of the longest titles in history: “Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat,” was also one of the most fun books I’ve read in the last five or six years. Giles Milton managed to find and capture an aspect of World War II that I had never heard…

  • Author Spotlight: Alison McMahan

    Hey Everybody, Alison McMahan has a short story in R.L. Stine’s new Anthology, Scream and Scream Again! Her contribution is called, “Kamikaze Iguanas.” About the Book: A harrowing array of scary stories that all have one thing in common: each either begins or ends with a scream! R.L. Stine—the godfather of Goosebumps—and some of the most popular…

  • So, the Norse won?

    The other night I discovered something that Marvel and the creators behind Thor have missed: Thor is living proof of a deity. I was cooking dinner when my five year old showed up slinging his Mjolnir (Thor’s Hammer). I asked, “Hey Thor, want to help with dinner?” I got the usual response. “No I’m just…

  • What is it With Little Boys and Guns

    I get that I’m an author and should probably stick to author stuff but like the title of the blog reads, this is the world according to me. I can do whatever I want. This is a gun-ish post but I have a couple of caveats. First, this isn’t a gun control post. There are…

  • Cynthia Kuhn -The Art of Vanishing

    I wanted to take a minute to post about the newest release from one of the authors I follow. Cynthia Kuhn’s “The Art of Vanishing,” came out in February 2017, if you are building your summer reading list this might not be a bad place to start. See below. Cynthia Kuhn writes the Lila Maclean Academic Mystery…

  • The Line Between Fiction and Science Fiction

      I’m a thriller writer currently trying my hand at the fantasy genre. I don’t know if writing in another universe was the germ that lead me to this question, or if it was one of the many news articles I’ve read lately but I’m wondering; where is the line between fiction and science fiction…

  • Human Trafficking

    Any good story has to have an underlying bedrock of truth.