As authors, we’re told to write what we know, but as with most writing advice, it’s a rough guide. My first few books featured a firefighter, a job I did...

When a fiction book is published, in many ways that’s literally the end of the story. But when a true crime book hits the shelves, that’s often just one step...

Meet Alida: Dean Koontz’s Odd but Endearing Friend of the Family In his latest novel, The Friend of the Family, Dean Koontz returns to the carnival world for inspiration, a...

Hunter Class is Alan Bardos' second Daniel Nichols WWII spy thriller. Readers may remember that in Rising Tide Nichol, forced out of active service by injury, joined naval intelligence. Working...

In 2023 I was lucky enough to have my book Opera listed for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. It didn’t win, that accolade went to Agent Seventeen by John...

Well, I don’t know about you, but I thought Jack Miller and Sophia von Naundorf had made it through to peacetime at the end of  Agent in Peril . Not...

When did you start writing? I started writing little books, which I would illustrate, when I was about 10. I got hooked on the idea that you could just sit...

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold , by John le Carré. To quote Schopenhauer, “Talent hits a target that no one else can hit. Genius hits a target...