Science In The Courts: Crazier Than Fiction?

Science In The Courts: Crazier Than Fiction? Let’s say you’ve decided to write a novel. You’ve always loved the crime genre and television dramas like CSI, and you pride yourself on knowing something about science and the law. So you decide your novel will be about a...

Grist for the Twitter Mill

Grist for the Twitter Mill by Rob Hart   Just now, I spent two hours looking for a photo of a bar I was a regular at ten years ago. That bar is long since closed, and Google Images let me down—there’s one decent shot of the sign, but it’s copyrighted. I messaged...

Jeffrey Westhoff: Saluting my influences

At the front of my book, a young adult spy novel called The Boy Who Knew Too Much, you will find these words: “The book is dedicated to the three authors who most directly inspired it: Robert Louis Stevenson, Elleston Trevor (who wrote the masterful Quiller novels...

NEW YORKED By Rob Hart

NEW YORKED Rob Hart June 2015 Polis Books   Like the city it’s named for, Rob Hart’s debut novel NEW YORKED can be seen as many things to many people. Visiting the city for the first time, a tourist may be overcome with anxiety or fear with the possibility of...

RADIANT ANGEL by Nelson DeMille reviewed

RADIANT ANGEL Nelson DeMille May 26th, 2015 Grand Central Publishing RADIANT ANGEL by Nelson DeMille is the 7th novel in the John Corey series. Mr. DeMille has been writing political thrillers for approximately thirty-five years, but like a fine wine he has gotten...

Author Work Spaces: Jessie Chandler

Editor’s Note: From time to time, we check in on authors and ask them to send us pictures of their office/writing spot. It is always fun to see where they spend their time crafting these tales of deceit and treachery. Today, we peer in the windows of Jessie...