Scott D. Parker: Writer

Kind of an ironic question to ask in a blog post, huh? Well, I have my answer, but let me tell you why I pose it. A Conversation A good...

James Reasoner has written so many books I’m not even sure he knows how many. A career writer of over 40 years, Reasoner is an old-school pu...

It took awhile but my copy of The Tarnished Star by Jack Martin (nee Gary Dobbs of the Tainted Archive blog ) arrived in my mailbox today. I...

I'm currently reading two books, one a grand pulp adventure and one a fantastic SF novel. Since this is a crime/pulp blog, I'm posti...

Mack, over at Mack Captures Crime , has embarked on a fun reading journey: read all the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan ...

Last year (2008 for those of you who will read this after 2009), I put myself through a self-education in the field of crime and mystery fic...

I've been sick since August of 2006. You see, that's when I began "thinking" and "Conceiving" and "brainsto...

If you are a regular visitor to SF Signal , my essential daily SF fix, as I am, you know that the guys who run the blog are faceless. No lon...

Patti Abbott has asked an interesting question: What's the best book you read in 2008 that was either written before 1970 or by a writer...

The good folks over at SF Signal (still my favorite and best source of all things SF/F/H) recently asked me to list some genre-related item...

Head on over to David Cranmer's The Education of a Pulp Writer and check out the preview of his new e-zine Beat to a Pulp. From David: ...

Courtesy of a link on David Cranmer's blog " The Education of a Pulp Writer ," I discovered a nice story site on the internet:...

Apologies to those who've come to this blog looking for new content. The day job is picking up quite a pace and the resulting tiredness ...

Wow! This Monday just got a lot more exciting. Want to know why? Head on over to Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine blog where he repri...

Since Ellery Queen is one of only two major magazines for mystery short stories, I think it's important to support the magazine and purc...

Thanks to Patti Abbott's blog , I discovered that Busted Flush Press now has a blog . Busted Flush, founded by David Thompson of Houston...

One of the side effects of my joining Patti Abbott 's Forgotten Books Fridays is that I've read two westerns. That's two wester...

Over at Bang! , Clayton Moore writes about Dennis Lehane and the fleeting hopes that another Patrick/Angie book is out there. Moore links to...

Recently, former librarian and life-long Texan, Will Howard, e-mailed me with a neat invitation. It seems someone had read my blog and recom...

*That's the title of a blog entry today over at SF Signal . For my part, I am a lifelong Star Wars geek. Like innumerable of you, someth...