Bouchercon 2008

Baltimore Maryland. Ruth Jordan and Judy Bobalik co-chairs. Bouchercon 2008 Official Bouchercon 2008 blog site is up and running. Links to Guest of Honor’s Websites, Links to Baltimore tourist information. It’s still three years out, but things are already...

Ruth's Reading – A Snapshot in Words

I’m inspired by recent events to share a taste of my reading so far this year. The books I’m going to talk about may or may not be the best in any academic senseof the crop I’ve read so far this year. What these books were and will always be are a reading experience....

IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing is a publishing house based in California. Among other things, they publish some great comics. One of the titles they do is the CSI line of comics licensed from CBS. Max Allan Collins is writing some of these and they are outstanding.The Show makes me a...

Simon Kernick

Simon Kernick. He was born in 1966 in the outskirt of London. After a number of odd jobs he eventually started writing THE BUSINESS OF DYING. This lead to writing further novels which to date include THE MURDER EXCHANGE, THE CRIME TRADE and his latest A GOOD DAY TO...

Box Office Boffo

They’re afraid in Hollywood. Should they be? Okay first let’s look at the “Box-Office down for 16 straight weeks.” Passion Of The Christ- I haven’t seen this movie and I’m actually a Jim C. fan. I loved Thin Red Line, Frequency, and even the flick with Ashley Judd....

New Music

During some free time please go to this website, Elijah Bossenbroek , and listen to this music. I first heard the music of Elijah Bossenbroek on an internet radio station called mysticradio It was playing in the back ground late one night and the song “Leaps and...

Some Thoughts on Doing Panels

With Bouchercon coming up and panel assignments going out I thought I might talk about doing panels a little bit. I’ve been to over 250 signing events and I’ve seen an awful lot of panels. Some things work and some things don’t. Some things work at...

A Three Movie Night

Watched three flicks last night, all pretty good. First up was Hostage based on the Robert Crais book. Different from the book of course, but not a bad movie. I always enjoy Bruce Willis and he was good in this. Full of the typical hollywood explosions and gun play it...