Changing The Covers on My Books
I liked the previous covers of my four books. But a smooth-talking Irishman, who presented as a social media expert at a conference I recently attended, persuaded me the covers looked dated. I fell...
Violent Voices in Our Heads, Violent Books on Our Shelves by Guest Blogger Clark Lohr
T.M. Luhrmann, an anthropology professor at Stanford, wrote an opinion piece which appeared in the New York Times on September 19, 2013, concerning, in part, paranoid schizophrenics who have done...
Writing As An Astral Projection Device
When a book comes alive it’s a wonderful feeling. Your words sparkle on the pages. The dialogue is snappy. You even laugh out loud at some of your one-liners. The characters leap off the page. You...
Violence as Entertainment #2 by Clark Lohr, Author
What is the effect, upon US. culture, of printed media depicting violence? A quick Google search comes up with television and video games, but not so much on print. The American Psychological...
A Movie of My Latest Book
Christine Brown arranged for us to do a Q & A on writing at the Frazier Park library. Frazier Park is a little town perched near Interstate-5, the river of commerce that runs from Mexico to...
Murder as Entertainment versus Murder as Murder by Clark Lohr
Not everybody thinks of murder as an entertainment, Sherry Kiyler told the attendees of recent Sisters in Crime meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. Kiyler, a retired police chief, gave Homicide...
Clark Lohr, new guest blogger will post on violence in crime fiction, Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Clark is an interesting fellow I met at a crime fiction writers conference. I consider both of his novels 5-star fiction. Here's how he describes himself: Clark Lohr grew up on a Montana farm and...
Rogue Critique Sessions
Here I am at the Southern California Writers Conference in San Diego for the weekend. I ventured out of the hotel this evening looking for some dinner, using my GPS to drive to an unfamiliar...
My Secret Addiction
I like to live dangerously, tinkering with the edge of old addictions. I just laid a jigsaw puzzle out on my dining room table. Now what earthly good are jigsaw puzzles? What does hours hunched...
