Just in time for the holidays, it’s now easier than ever to pick up a copy of HARD-BOILED CHRISTMAS STORIES for your own library, or as a swell gift. You probably know the details: nine great tales of Yuletide homicide from some of the top pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, plus the first… Read More »HARD-BOILED CHRISTMAS STORIES
Halloween has long been one of my favorite holidays, so I’m really happy to have a couple of things going this particular October 31 that may be of interest. I’m also proud to say that both of them come to you via the public airwaves. First, at 8 p.m. Tulsa time, Scott Gregory and I… Read More »HALLOWEEN GOODIES
I first interviewed Heather Langenkamp about three decades ago, just as the film NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET was in the process of making her a horror-movie star. Now, Heather’s returning to her hometown of Tulsa to celebrate the 30th anniversary of that iconic spooker, and I’m proud to say that I’ve been asked along for… Read More »HEATHER LANGENKAMP INTERVIEW
One of the hoariest of the cliches surrounding my profession is that writers should write about what they know. Thanks to my old Chelsea High School pal David Anderson, I’ve just been able to do that, and the resulting book, ED GALLOWAY’S TOTEM POLE PARK, is now available on Amazon. As a kid growing up… Read More »ED GALLOWAY’S TOTEM POLE PARK
I’m proud to call Bill Bernhardt a friend, and not just because he’s a New York Times bestselling author who’s entertained hundreds of thousands of people with his Ben Kincaid novels and other work. It’s also because he’s been so consistently kind to me and what I laughingly refer to as my career over our… Read More »ROSE STATE SHORT COURSE ON WRITING
Once again, Jack and Carole Bender, my good friends who write and draw the daily Alley Oop comic strip, are using a plot synopsis of mine. Of course, I couldn’t be happier nor more grateful. This time around, I’m especially delighted because I got to work in one of my favorite milieus: 1940’s Poverty Row… Read More »ALLEY OOP
It’s taken half a year, but there’s a new Hidden Sixties special coming your way from Public Radio Tulsa this July 4th. Featuring songs that you may not have heard since the 1960s, if you’ve heard them at all, the Hidden Sixties Summer Special follows — albeit very slowly — on the heels of the Hidden Sixties Holiday Special, which aired during… Read More »HIDDEN SIXTIES SUMMER SPECIAL
I hope to see a few like-minded fans of good old escapist literature in Chicago at the Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention, which runs from April 25th through the 27th. It’s a terrific convention full of, well, people who read, and tons of great reading material for sale, along with art (both for sale… Read More »WINDY CITY PULP AND PAPERBACK CONVENTION
Sunday, March 30, I’ll be joining my dj son Steven for the Vinyl Brunch, an event put on by the Tulsa Vinyl Society at the Chimera Cafe, 212 N. Main Street in Tulsa. As the guest dj that day, he’ll be spinning “electronic to Americana,” he says, during his time at the turntables. Steven… Read More »Vinyl Brunch
A confession: I’ve needed help for a long time. Anyone could see it — anyone, that is, who exposed him- or herself to my pitiful efforts at maintaining a website, blogging, tweeting, navigating Facebook (never mind actually responding to questions and comments), and generally becoming even a tiny part of the whole social media scene.… Read More »JOEY JUMPS IN