Scott D. Parker: Writer

Has it really been forty years? That Special Pocket of Time in Star Wars Fandom Travel back, if you will, to 1979. If you were a kid ...

( 2019 update. On a lark, I scoured this blog to see the book I reviewed first for Patti Abbott's Friday's Forgotten Books way back ...

Sometimes, a western features a guy walking, riding, talking, and thinking. But little in the way of shooting. THE FOURTH GUNMAN by Merle...

When I read Frank Gruber’s retelling of his days as a struggling then successful pulp fiction writer from the 1930s, I realized something ...

In 2010, while vacationing in and around San Diego, I happened into a used book, as I am wont to do. I found a book called Death on Trea...

Today, on Friday's Forgotten Books*, Patti Abbott suggested we focus on Ed McBain. I didn't read a new book for this week's post...

(This is my latest entry to Patti Abbott's Forgotten Book Project. Today, we're reviewing story collections. For the complete list o...

(This is my latest contribution to Patti Abbott's Forgotten Book Project. For the complete list, head on over to her website .) Two thou...

Doc Savage and dinosaurs. Do you need any other enticement to read this book? The Land of Terror was the second Doc Savage novel, published ...

(This is my latest entry for Patti Abbott's Friday's Forgotten Books. See her blog for the list of other participants.) I’ve joined ...

I tried. I really did. With a renewed interest in traditional mysteries, I gave Nero Wolfe another go. I re-read the Sherlock Holmes novels ...

(My latest entry to Patti Abbott's Friday Forgotten Books. For the complete list, head on over to her blog .) How does one sum up, in wo...

(My latest entry in Patti Abbott's Friday Forgotten Books. For the complete list, head on over to her blog .) Most of these forgotten bo...

(This is my latest contribution to Patti Abbott's Friday Forgotten Books project. For the complete list, head on over to her blog .) I t...

(My latest entry in Patti Abbott’s Friday’s Forgotten Books. For the complete list, head on over to her blog .) One definition of a forgotte...

You have to give Edgar Rice Burroughs credit, the man knows how to start a story. When we last saw our hero in The Return of Tarzan, John Cl...

(My latest contribution to Patti Abbott's Friday Forgotten Books. See her blog for the complete list.) I did not hate this book. I real...