Scott D. Parker: Writer

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...

It is difficult to explain how excited I am about this weekend. On Sunday, over at David Cranmer 's wonderful and entertaining Beat to a...

(This is my latest entry for Patti Abbott’s Friday Forgotten Book extravaganza. For the complete list, head on over to her site .) (To celeb...

Here's irony: of all the blogger friends and pals I've met on my journey, I have not read much of their fiction. And believe me, the...

(My latest entry for Patti Abbott’s Friday Forgotten Books. For the complete list, head on over to her blog .) Based on the cover painting o...

SF Signal , among others, have all noted the ceasing of Starlog, that venerable SF/F/film magazine, as a print publication. I just read Chri...

Watched Part 3 (of 5) of the BBC's presentation of "Little Dorrit" on PBS last night. This tale just gets better and better. U...

At the time of its publication, I considered Stephen King’s third collection of short fiction, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, to be his Et Cete...

This past Sunday was part 2 (of 5) of the BBC dramatization of Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit" on PBS. Just like the first pa...

(My latest contribution to Patti Abbott’s Forgotten Book Fridays. Head on over to her blog for the complete list.)  Being first has its adv...

(This is the latest installment in Barrie Summy's Book Review Club. For the complete list of this month's offerings, head on over to...