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: The Writing Game
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”
Ed Earl Lottery
Your ol’ pal, Honest Jim, is tardy with his latest Twelve Days of Christmas giveaway extravaganza. Blame the blinding lights and glitter along with the tears of… Read more “Ed Earl Lottery”
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: Part Dux
Had a lot of fun yakking it up Monday with the great Fran Lewis, book reviewer and podcast host extraordinaire about my latest Ed Earl Burch hard-boiled… Read more “Honest Jim Speaks: Part Dux”
The Iceman Cometh
Masterful crime writer Bruce Robert Coffin is back on the beat where he belongs, with lights flashing and sirens wailing to mark the twisted track of tarnished… Read more “The Iceman Cometh”
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”
Deadly Desert Walk
My good friend, John W. Davis, a Cold War counter-intelligence spook for the U.S. Army and author of two excellent collections of essays and articles on terrorism,… Read more “Deadly Desert Walk”
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