8 Things you Need to Know About Russ Colchamiro
You wanted to know more about us, but you know what they say … be careful for what you wish for. You might surely get it! What that warning in mind, here are 8 Things you Need to Know About … Continue...
View ArticleHow I Met the Author – Russ Colchamiro
It was PhilCon, a convention that is, ironically, held in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. I was there for the first time, one of several author guests, and in between panels I was wandering the dealers’ room....
View ArticleTake three DuckBobs and call me in the morning!
No, that wasn’t it. Hang on . . . DuckBob takes three in the morning and never calls! Still not right. Oh, wait, I remember now—it’s DuckBob, Take Three! That’s right, if you loved No Small Bills and...
View ArticleSpotlight on our Author Spotlights
Part of the fun of running a Kickstarter campaign for our Pangaea anthology is writing Author Spotlights. I know, they sound like they’d be a chore. But they’re not. Really. The reason is as I’m...
View ArticleWhat I’m Working On: Russ Colchamiro
It is totally ‘go time’ for Genius de Milo, the sequel to Finders Keepers. The print version is finished, produced, and ready. The e-book is juuuuust about there. I’m also in the process of lining up...
View ArticleWhat I’m Working on: Peter David
Greetings to all my Crazy 8 fans. Been a while since I’ve taken the time to say hi. I thought I’d bring you up to speed on what’s been going on in my life creatively. Things have been exceedingly...
View ArticleWhat I’m Working on: Michael Jan Friedman
Remember the TV show Cheers? I hope so. I’d hate to think I was the only one taking notes back in the 80s. Anyway, there was this episode in which Sam the barkeep lends serving maid Diane $500 to buy …...
View ArticleWhy Did the Chicken Cross the Information Highway?
By Paul Kupperberg Bob Greenberger asked us to write about recent obstacles we’ve faced in our writing, which seemed a fairly easy topic to approach. In writing, as in any creative endeavor, you’re...
View ArticleThe Book Cover Conundrum – How to Make it Great
The cover for every book is critical, sometimes even more important than us writers want to admit. We want to think that the story we’ve crafted alone should be enough to ‘sell’ our books, but let’s...
View ArticleBooks for the Holidays
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. By which I mean, crass commercialism and holiday insanity (pagan cup of Christmas-hating Starbucks Christmas Blend coffee anyone?) are in full bloom, making...
View ArticleA Little Something from In My Shorts
A bunch of years ago, my friend Joe Gentile of Moonstone Books asked me to contribute a short story to an anthology called Vampires: Dracula and the Undead Legions. Out of that came a story called “Man...
View ArticleWelcome to Astropalooza
There’s a tendency among us humans to exaggerate. Just a wee bit. Things like … I’ve been doing this half my life! Yet in my case … in this particular case … it happens to be true. ASTROPALOOZA is...
View ArticleCabal and Other Irresponsible Invocations of The Muse
Cabal and Other Irresponsible Invocations of The Muse is my first book of short fiction. It’s got all the kinds of stories I’ve become known for in books, in comics, and on TV–fantasy, science fiction,...
View ArticleLove, Murder & Mayhem – Confessions of Angela Hardwicke, P.I.
Confession time. Our new Crazy 8 Press anthology — Love, Murder & Mayhem — came about for purely selfish reasons. And her name is Angela Hardwicke, but I’ll come back to that. It was my turn...
View ArticleLove, Murder & Mayhem – Geek Parenting and the Language of Love
By Karissa Laurel When I heard one of the themes of the new scifi-themed Crazy 8 Press anthology was love – the collection is called Love, Murder & Mayhem — my thoughts didn’t go straight to...
View ArticleLove, Murder, Mayhem – Write What You Know…A**hole!
“The Case of the Missing Alien Baby Mama” is my fourth outing with Leo Persky, “a solid five foot seven, one hundred and forty-two pounds of average, complete with glasses, too much nose, not enough...
View ArticleLove, Murder & Mayhem – My Three Elements
Writers often like a challenge. When presented with a title, the mind begins to spin in different directions until finally rising in on the one that tickles the creative fancy the most. When you get...
View ArticleLove, Murder & Mayhem – When My Brain Goes Future Noir
By Lois Spangler Listen: the moment you utter science fiction and love, murder, and mayhem all in the same breath, my brain immediately goes future-noir. And future-noir bubbles up in my mind as a...
View ArticleLove, Murder & Mayhem – On Moms, Superheroes, and Cookies
By Paige Daniels Be gentle, dear reader, for it’s been quite some time since I’ve blogged. With a full time job and kids who need shuttling to and fro, I had to make the decision between writing actual...
View ArticleLove, Murder & Mayhem – A Short and Sweet Ballad
My pal Russ Colchamiro – one of my colleagues in Crazy 8 Press – is editing our summer anthology this year. It’s called Love, Murder & Mayhem, and his only requirement for us at the outset was that...
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