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New Stuff!
To my many loyal readers of this here blog, I apologize for not posting more often. I've become busier than I can handle over the last few months, so some things, unfortunately, get neglected. I'll...
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We'll Make Great Pets
Maybe I've been wrong all these years.I remember standing up for myself in junior high when the school's army of yuppie scum decided they'd try to bully me. First I pulled a switchblade knife and...
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Waylon Jennings Anthology Now Available!
A collection of crime fiction/noir stories inspired by the music of Waylon Jennings is now available. I edited this little beauty, but the credit belongs to the writers who contributed amazing stories...
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DARKLANDS is live at THE YARD
“It’s funny.” He scratched his khaki pants, picked at the sleeves of a pink button-down shirt. “A couple of nights ago, my daughter asked what it means to die. I always figured the sex talk would be...
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NOBODY'S COMING HOME
My collection of crime fiction short stories is now available from ABC Group Documentation. Enjoy!
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THINGS CHANGE: A Tom Boyle Mystery...Now at The Yard!
The world of crime fiction is huge. The venues printing crime fiction are everywhere. One of the more dedicated spots today is The Yard. They published "Darklands," a seriously hardboiled detective...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "Progress"
When Crooked Roads was published way back in the prehistoric year of 2015, I wrote several entries here detailing the histories of the short stories in the book. Nobody's Coming Home is my first...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "Miscarriage"
The first full length short story in Nobody's Coming Home is "Miscarriage." This story began life as my contribution to Naptown Noir, an anthology that never happened because, well, people don't give a...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "Polite Society"
"Polite Society" is actually the oldest story in Nobody's Coming Home. I wrote it in 2014 and James Ward Kirk published it in Indiana Crime Review 2015. 2014 was a rough year. That was the year I was...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "Crank Baxter Ain't No Goddamn Christian"
"Crank Baxter Ain't No Goddamn Christian" is the fourth story in Nobody's Coming Home. It is the most recent version of a story I first wrote back in 2009. It's a rendition of my favorite kind of...
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Conversations with Mr. Cizak
I've recently made several appearances at several podcasts:Starlite PulpWrong Place, Write Crime andRoughneck Dispatch
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "The Bag Girl"
"The Bag Girl" introduces the main female character we follow through the story cycle in Nobody's Coming Home (whose name we learn, much later, is Cymbaline). The initial idea for "The Bag Girl" came...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "Destroyers"
"Destroyers" is one of the most talked about stories in Nobody's Coming Home. It addresses the horrific reboot of the Salem witch trials that has been occurring in the West since social media became a...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "The Radical Mr. Bogata"
"The Radical Mr. Bogata" is one of those rare stories that starts with a title. Somewhere during my time in Montana, I thought of the name Mr. Bogata and the rest of the title came to me. The word...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "Nasty Habits"
The story that follows "The Radical Mr. Bogata" in Nobody's Coming Home is "Nasty Habits.""Nasty Habits" examines the issues of obsession and addiction. It argues some are more or less harmful than...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "The Bunker Girl"
"The Bunker Girl" is one of the newer stories in Nobody's Coming Home. I wrote it specifically for the collection as I wanted to write something that would bring most of the characters from the...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "Cymbaline"
"Cymbaline" is the final story in Nobody's Coming Home that features the young woman we first met in "The Bag Girl." She is also the young woman in "The Bunker Girl." It isn't until "Cymbaline" that...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "The Old Pissing Wall"
Years ago when I lived in Los Angeles, whilst shooting a movie in downtown, I found I had to go the bathroom and I couldn't find a public restroom anywhere. The producer on the movie, a young dude...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "The Thing About Padlocks"
Over Christmas I gave my dad who raised me a copy of Nobody's Coming Home. He is a bit of a limousine liberal and has been brainwashed enough by MSNBC to think stories with "unlikeable" characters...
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The Stories Behind the Stories: "Last Exit Before Toll"
The final story in Nobody's Coming Home is a thoroughly nasty little piece of flash fiction called "Last Exit Before Toll." It closes the collection for a couple of reasons. Obviously, the title...
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The Unholy Trilogy Revisted: Down on the Street
No book of mine has gotten more reviews at Amazon than Down on the Street. It seemed like things were going up up and up from there. Then I wrote Breaking Glass and the cancel clowns started their...
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The Unholy Trilogy Revisited: Breaking Glass
Breaking Glass was written as a result of realizing the character Chelsea Farmer didn't get a fair evaluation in Down on the Street. DOTS is told from Lester's point of view, meaning, Chelsea was...
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Should I?
I'm beginning to wonder whether I should bring back All Due Respect as a print journal.
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