If it’s January, your ol’ pal Honest Jim must have another Fresh Fiction giveaway teed up and ready for you to play. This time, you can win… Read more “Risk & Hard-boiled Reward”
Category: Book Updates
Damaged Characters
Grab a listen to your ol’ pal, Honest Jim, chewing the red meat of writing that magnificent trainwreck of a hard-boiled crime thriller character, Ed Earl Burch,… Read more “Damaged Characters”
Lone Star Praise
Big blast of THANKS to ace Texas book reviewer Kevin Tipple for putting THE FATAL SAVING GRACE on his list of favorite books, July through December. Fingers… Read more “Lone Star Praise”
Five-Star Praise
Check out the five-star review of The Fatal Saving Grace by reviewer and podcast host extraordinaire Fran Lewis at: https://just-reviews.org/2025/12/22/ed-earl-is-back/
Honest Jim Speaks
Had a blast chopping it up with my good friend and fellow author Terrence McCauley on his podcast. We cut the tape last week and he ran… Read more “Honest Jim Speaks”
Fast Pace, Languid Tone
It’s really a kick when an author you dig gives your work a big thumbs up and shows they really get your story, your main character and… Read more “Fast Pace, Languid Tone”
The Anti-Leviathan
Gots an absolutely, positively incurable bloodlust for my latest hard-boiled Texas crime thriller, THE FATAL SAVING GRACE, but hate spending money with Jeff Bezos? Here are a… Read more “The Anti-Leviathan”
Grab A Knee
One of the marvelous but terrifying prospects of kicking a new novel out the door is the judgement of fellow authors and reviewers you admire and respect.… Read more “Grab A Knee”
Double Whammy
Yow! Gonna be some powerful punches thrown your way early next week by your ol’ pal, Honest Jim. So, suck it up, Pilgrim. Glove up and get… Read more “Double Whammy”
Hard-Boiled Deliverance
The day all you rabid Ed Earl Burch fans have been waiting for is just around the corner. That’s right — on Monday, December 15, the next… Read more “Hard-Boiled Deliverance”
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