by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 6, 2013 | Features, Five Things
I get to do a lot of reading on the job. (No, not the job that involves breaking and entering. I’m talking about my day job, selling pre-owned works of literature at Barnegat Books on East Eleventh Street in Greenwich Village.) Far too many of those diurnal...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 3, 2013 | Flashback
The question I most often get asked at Q & A sessions is why I chose the early electric car industry as the backdrop for my historical mystery The Detroit Electric Scheme. I spent three months researching Detroit and the business prior to beginning the novel, and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 31, 2013 | Books
Chapter One The bright red numbers on the nightstand stood out in the darkness of Pete Fernandez’s bedroom. Some sunlight crept into the space between his hastily drawn blinds. 2:30 in the afternoon. Pete groaned and scanned the room with his bloodshot eyes. Clothes...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 31, 2013 | Books, Reviews
I love Westerns. Ever since I was a kid, it didn’t matter if it was John Wayne or Clint Eastwood or if it was some fantasy like spaghetti western or a Sam Peckinpah sweat drenched nightmare. Also I didn’t care if it was based on historical fact or was the creation of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 30, 2013 | Five Things
1. Astral Weeks – Van Morrison: No one album has influenced my whole way of writing like this one has. Astral Weeks sets off the most startling images in my head and fuels My writing with a sense of loss that I am always trying to convey and if I want to describe a...
