My Dave Mason police procedural series is about the Santa Monica Police Department and the city itself, a tourist destination with a colorful background, present, and future. I love Santa Monica, but will others care that much? What is critical information for me, the...
My second murder mystery has been published, titled Rip-Off. People ask why you write one kind of book and not another. Why whodunit murder mysteries in my case? Why not literary family fiction? I worked decades as an academic researcher at the University of Southern...
Authors are assigned to panels at these conferences and we looked at one another when we met trying to find the commonality between us. Is it that we all struggle with the problem of getting our protagonist in and out of danger. We all have to find a believable...
The Left Coast Crime Conference held in Sacramento, California brought together fewer agents and editors that I had noticed in last year’s conference. A quick scan of the program revealed only five panels out of the fifty-two varied offerings dealing with the...
Today I am to do a radio interview on an internet radio station with author John Byk. The subject will be my novel No Dice. Find John Byk’s radio blog interviews at http://2012writersalive.blogspot.com/ A work of fiction has to be about something, doesn’t it? I’m...
John Byk, who writes under the pen name of Conrad Johnson, wrote a mystery called Crying Bullets whom I thought of today in regard to the the school shootings in Ohio. I finished Crying Bullets recently, liked the book so much, and today just can’t get it out of my...
