Check out Honest Jim’s review of Dennis Rogers’ SPIT SHINE: MUD, SWEAT, AND COMING OF AGE. It’s a marvelous book by my old journalism buddy, one of… Read more “A Soldier’s Story”
Author: EdEarl
I'm an ex-journalist, self-published novelist and avowed technopeasant reluctantly dipping a scuffed boot toe into the blogosphere. Looking at the wreckage of the newsroom where I currently work brings to mind the line from The Shawshank Redemption -- get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. High time I got busy with the former because newspapers are real busy dyin' right now. When I'm not casting a gloomy eye on my profession, I like to hunt, work on my '68 Chevy C-20 -- a fabulously impractical city vehicle dubbed The Green Hornet -- listen to bluegrass, blues and Texas music of all stripes, cuss about the declining fortunes of the Tennessee Vols and consider the virtues of barbecue in its many incarnations. A wreck and a ripped up knee convinced me to give up my Harley a year or so back and I'm still pissed about that.
Gotham City Thriller
Check out Honest Jim’s review of Rich Zahradnik’s award-winning Coleridge Taylor mystery, Lights Out Summer: One of the great things about a Rich Zahradnik novel is his… Read more “Gotham City Thriller”
Hot Skillet Mystery
Check out Honest Jim’s advance review of Bruce Robert Coffin’s upcoming Detective Byron mystery, Within Plain Sight: Bruce Robert Coffin’s latest Detective Byron mystery, WITHIN PLAIN… Read more “Hot Skillet Mystery”
The Past Never Dies
Check out Honest Jim’s review of Howard Owen’s latest Willie Black mystery, Evergreen: If you ever worked at a newspaper, you knew a guy like Willie Black.… Read more “The Past Never Dies”
Define Your Characters with Snappy Dialogue and A Keen Sense of Place: A Guest Blog by Jim Nesbitt
Author, Jim Nesbitt I’m a Chandler junkie. As in Raymond Chandler. Always have been, always will be. One of the founding fathers of the hard-boiled school of…
Rattlesnake Praise
Humbled and honored by this nugget of high praise from fellow author Bruce Coffin, a cop’s cop and one helluva writer: “Texas tough and rattlesnake mean, Jim… Read more “Rattlesnake Praise”
Crazy Cheap
I figger ol’ Honest Jim has lost what few marbles he has left. How else do you explain him choppin’ the price of all e-book versions of… Read more “Crazy Cheap”
Hard-Boiled Chatter
Listen to your ol’ pal, Honest Jim, talk about the latest Ed Earl Burch hard-boiled crime thriller, THE BEST LOUSY CHOICE, a finalist for Book Talk Radio… Read more “Hard-Boiled Chatter”
Texas Tough
Ed Earl Burch is just too Texas for words, chasing bad guys across a stark and unforgiving land with a .45 in one hand and a whiskey… Read more “Texas Tough”
Old School Ink
Check out Honest Jim’s review of Howard Owen’s excellent first Willie Black mystery, Oregon Hill. Then go out and buy it. Journalists are a clannish lot, particularly… Read more “Old School Ink”
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