Tag: hard-boiled mystery

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

My Experience with a 99designs Book Cover Contest

When I released my cyberpunk dystopia Strictly Analog in 2012, I used a cover designed by a friend with a lot of experience in graphic arts. The book is a near-future noir-style mystery about a private detective who’s locked out of the high tech world he inhabits because of physical disabilities. As such, he exists…
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October 28, 2014 6

Two Years Before the Mast

So there I was, sitting in the lobby at the Upland Martial Arts Center, watching my daughter (a green belt at the time), go through her forms when the karate-dad sitting next to me mentioned that he’d just put a novel up on Lulu. He’d had a couple of mysteries he’d written years before that…
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January 27, 2014 0