A simple concept, and hard to beat when you've got the right authors. The two in this issue certainly fall into that category. I've read the novel version of Walker Tompkins' "Flaming Canyon", and the Norman A. Fox story is bound to be g...

I'm not a big metal fan, but some of it, like this song and just about everything else by Manowar, makes good background music for writing action stuff.

This post originally appeared in slightly different form on August 18, 2007.Recently I got the urge to read a long book, which is rare for me, and at nearly 600 pages in the Pocket Books Premium edition, Ted Bell’s debut thriller HAWKE c...

I have a vivid memory of sitting in my bedroom in my parents' house on a rainy summer afternoon in 1967, reading comic books and listening to the radio. And I remember that this song was one that played that afternoon. (The radio station...

Chuck Dixon is one of my favorite comics writers. His run on AIRBOY back in the Nineties was great, and he's done plenty of other things I've enjoyed, including a lot of Batman stories. In this mini-series from about ten years ago, he's ...

Simon and Garfunkel last night, my favorite Paul Simon solo song tonight.

We all know by now that Peter Brandvold writes some of the best action scenes in the business. He's also a master at setting the stage and writing vivid descriptive passages. Plus his characters are always interesting and compelling. All...

My favorite of Simon and Garfunkel's songs, which is saying quite a bit because I like all of their work.

I'd never heard of this movie until it popped up in a Netflix recommendation. But it's a Texas-set (and as it turns out, Texas-filmed) teen comedy, so I thought I'd give it a chance. It's the story of a vain, self-centered beauty queen/h...

Sometimes you just want to listen to a good pirate song.