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I get a lot of people asking about how I write and hike at the same time.  I’ve posted my main essay on the subject, “Talking to Myself,” here on the blog, but if you’d like to read it again, you can click here. This morning, the newsletter from Olympus Recorders also ran an interview/article […]

Not bad to start the week with some good news.  This morning I learned that the first Dan Shamble, Zombie PI novel, DEATH WARMED OVER, has been nominated for the Shamus Award, given by the Private Eye Writers of America in the category of Best Paperback PI Novel.  I was excited enough to wake the […]

I can smell smoke.  And it reminds me too much of this time last year. In 2012, the Colorado Springs area was devastated by the Waldo Canyon Fire, which started in a canyon far south of here, but raced along the ridge top in high winds, causing major evacuations and incredible destruction.  It was the […]

I used Grammarly to grammar check this post, because I wanted to see how well they would do.  Grammar checkers are always problematic, because they are often so rule-obsessed they ignore what a writer is trying to do.  I found Grammarly to be unintrusive, however, and a good way to teach a writer not to […]