SELECTED ARTICLES and ESSAYS
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine forum: Trace Evidence
"High Finance," Nov 14, 2012 Byline Magazine "Cover Me—I’m Going In," May 1999 "The Art of Titling Your Stories," Oct 2004 Chester Hines Mystery Workshop "What Is a Mystery Short Story?" 2004 |
booksigning, Christmas Memories from Mississippi, Dec. 2010
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Christmas Memories from Mississippi (anthology, University Press), 2010
"Splitting Christmas"
The Clarion-Ledger
Review: GravesEnd, Sep 2018
Criminal Brief
"New Kid on the Block," Dec 29, 2007
"It’s a Mystery to Me," Jan 5, 2008
"Picture This," Jan 12, 2008
"Lost in Translation," Jan 19, 2008
"Title Tale," Jan 26, 2008
"In the Land of Cotton," Feb 2, 2008
"Literary vs. Genre," Feb 9, 2008
"The Usual Suspects," Feb 16, 2008
"Screen Test," Feb 23, 2008
"The Idea Machine," March 1, 2008
"Funny Business," March 8, 2008
"Dialogue is Like a Box of Chocolates," March 15, 2008
"I Like Short Shorts," March 22, 2008
"Starting Out," March 29, 2008
"Fantasyland," April 5, 2008
"Character Study," April 12, 2008
"Thanks But No Thanks," April 19, 2008
"An Element of Style," April 26, 2008
"Why Won’t Johnny Read?" May 3, 2008
"The Old Man and the Sand and Sea," May 10, 2008
"Who Was that Masked Man?" May 17, 2008
"Facts in Fiction," May 24, 2008
"Night Vision," May 31, 2008
"Long Story Short," June 7, 2008
"Storybooks," June 14, 2008
"Success Story," June 21, 2008
"Group Therapy," June 28, 2008
"Map Quest," July 5, 2008
"Teamwork," July 12, 2008
"Quotable Notables," July 19, 2008
"Remembering Neverland," July 26, 2008
"At Ease With These Apostrophes," Aug 2, 2008
"I Made It Up," Aug 9, 2008
"The Wrong Stuff," Aug 16, 2008
"Immortality," Aug 23, 2008
"That’s Entertainment," Aug 30, 2008
"Okay, That’s a Wrap," Sept 6, 2008
"Sign Language," Sept 13, 2008
"Specialty Items," Sept 20, 2008
"A Sense of Disclosure – Part 1," Sept 27, 2008
"A Sense of Disclosure – Part 2," Oct 4, 2008
"A Cliche a Day," Oct 11, 2008
"Conference Notes," Oct 18, 2008
"Character Sketch," Oct 25, 2008
"I Think This Is Where We Came In," Nov 1, 2008
"A 360-Degree Story Arc," Nov 8, 2008
"Long Live the King," Nov 15, 2008
"Stories About Stories," Nov 22, 2008
"Hyphen the Terrible," Nov 29, 2008
"Opening Volleys," Dec 6, 2008
"For What It’s Worth," Dec 13, 2008
"Lighten Up a Little," Dec 20, 2008
"Whoa—I Didn’t See That Coming," Dec 27, 2008
"A Pack of Lies," Jan 3, 2009
"Shorter Than Short," Jan 10, 2009
"Where’d You Get a Name Like That?" Jan 17, 2009
"Checklist," Jan 24, 2009
"Don’t Try This at Home," Jan 31, 2009
"Title Search," Feb 7, 2009
"A Story in a Nutshell," Feb 14, 2009
"A Bookful of Authors," Feb 21, 2009
"Blessings in Disguise," Feb 28, 2009
"What’s in It for Me?," March 7, 2009
"I’m Hearing Voices," March 14, 2009
"Interior Monologue," March 21, 2009
"A.K.A. John Smith," March 28, 2009
"The Cheering Section," April 4, 2009
"Partners in Crime," April 11, 2009
"Playing at Work," April 18, 2009
"Daddy, Where Do Stories Come From?" April 25, 2009
"Running the Middles," May 2, 2009
"Open Up—It’s the Grammar Police," May 9, 2009
"And the Winner Is . . ." May 16, 2009
"What’s the Big Hurry?" May 23, 2009
"Looking West," May 30, 2009
"English Comp-lications," June 6, 2009
"Smartly Done," June 13, 2009
"Elmore and More," June 20, 2009
"McKnight Work," June 27, 2009
"Short Cuts," July 4, 2009
"Mad for Magazines," July 11, 2009
"Playing Favorites," July 18, 2009
"Thirty Pairs of Shorts," July 25, 2009
"Don’t Read Page 80," Aug 1, 2009
"Psychobabble," Aug 8, 2009
"Location, Location, Location," Aug 15, 2009
"Spellbound," Aug 22, 2009
"Dial S for Suspense," Aug 29, 2009
"Professional Help," Sept 5, 2009
"Slow Men at Work," Sept 12, 2009
"Another Box of Chocolates," Sept 19, 2009
"Class Notes," Sept 26, 2009
"No Boredom in Barrdom," Oct 3, 2009
"The Second Time Around," Oct 10, 2009
"Patients, Patients," Oct 17, 2009
"Conference Call," Oct 24, 2009
"From the Horse’s Mouth," Oct 31, 2009
"Smile When You Say That," Nov 7, 2009
"Home Alone," Nov 14, 2009
"A Hundred Easy Pieces," Nov 21, 2009
"My Own V of POV," Nov 28, 2009
"If I Were a Ritchie Man," Dec 5, 2009
"Criminal Records," Dec 12, 2009
"Mixed Company," Dec 19, 2009
"Dialogjam," Dec 26, 2009
"Outside Assistance," Jan 2, 2010
"Bill’s Briefs," Jan 9, 2010
"A Guy in a Woman’s World," Jan 16, 2010
"In God’s Country," Jan 23, 2010
"Inside Info," Jan 30, 2010
"Strike Up the Band," Feb 6, 2010
"Summer Rose—Part 1," Feb 13, 2010
"Write What You Like," Feb 20, 2010
"Colonization," Feb 27, 2010
"Adventures in Paradise," March 6, 2010
"Fandemonium," March 13, 2010
"A Matter of Timing," March 20, 2010
"Setting the Stage," March 27, 2010
"A Good Story and Other Stories," April 3, 2010
"Dreaming of Money," April 10, 2010
"Getting Caught," April 17, 2010
"Journalism," April 24, 2010
"Aboard The Busted Flush," May 1, 2010
"Think You Used Enough Dynamite There, Butch?" May 8, 2010
"A Dark and Stormy Brain," May 15, 2010
"Soup-from-the-Cannes Film Festival," May 22, 2010
"Totally Lost," June 5, 2010
"The First Little Piggy," June 12, 2010
"Dashes and Splats," June 19, 2010
"Short and Southern," June 26, 2010
"Bio Mechanics," July 3, 2010
"Great Expectations," July 10, 2010
"Informal is Normal," July 17, 2010
"Movie Talk," July 24, 2010
"Inspect Your Gadgets," July 31, 2010
"What’s That Boy Sayin’?," Aug 7, 2010
"Unappreciated," Aug 14, 2010
"Zapped," Aug 21, 2010
"Lesser Evils," Aug 28, 2010
"If You Don’t Know Your Burro From a Burrow," Sept 4, 2010
"Ticket, Please," Sept 11, 2010
"Call Me Later—I’m Writing," Sept 18, 2010
"Bond Fans Are Forever," Sept 25, 2010
"Drove My Chevy to the Levee but the Levee Was Dry," Oct 2, 2010
"Easy Does It (Sometimes)," Oct 9, 2010
"A Room Without a View," Oct 16, 2010
"The King of Shorts," Oct 23, 2010
"Before the Shooting Starts," Oct 30, 2010
"A Hard Way to Make an Easy Living," Nov 6, 2010
"Prolonging the Agony," Nov 13, 2010
"Oh What a Tangled Web," Nov 20, 2010
"Unoriginal Sins," Nov 27, 2010
"Signing Bonus ," Dec 4, 2010
"Back to (and From) the Future," Dec 11, 2010
"Step Into My LaBORatory," Dec 18, 2010
"Comfort and Joy," Dec 25, 2010
"Thoughts on 1/1/11," Jan 1, 2011
"The Best-Laid Plans," Jan 8, 2011
"A Fantasy World," Jan 15, 2011
"Stories for Sale—New & Used," Jan 22, 2011
"Nobody Does It Better," Jan 29, 2011
"Dumb & Dumber," Feb 5, 2011
"Collectibiles," Feb 12, 2011
"Expect the Unexpected," Feb 19, 2011
"The Same Old Story," Feb 26, 2011
"Coen Crazy," March 5, 2011
"Now Available in Two Flavors," March 12, 2011
"Chapter and Verse," March 19, 2011
"Murder, Texas Style," March 26, 2011
"Hey, You! Yes, YOU!!" April 2, 2011
"The Sincerest Form of Flattery," April 9, 2011
"Pages of Stories, Part 1," April 16, 2011
"Radio Activity: A True Story," April 23, 2011
"Kid Stuff," April 30, 2011
"Perception Is Everything," May 13, 2011
"Booklist," May 20, 2011
"An Unfortunate Choice of Words," May 27, 2011
"Police Story," June 4, 2011
"Fort Lauderdale Vice," June 11, 2011
"Advice Column?" June 18, 2011
"In Their Spare Time," June 25, 2011
"Unfinished Business," July 2, 2011
"Bits and Pieces," July 9, 2011
"Selling Them Short," July 23, 2011
"Neither Noir nor Neo-Noir," July 30, 2011
"A Little Help From Your Friends," Aug 6, 2011
"Fun and Names," Aug 13, 2011
"The Customer Is Always (?) Right," Aug 20, 2011
"Unidentified Flying Boogeyman," Aug 27, 2011
"A Helpful Discussion," Sept 3, 2011
"A Story by Any Other Name," Sept 10, 2011
"Writing Tight," Sept 17, 2011
Edit Is a Four-Letter Word, by Glynis Scrivens, Compass Books, 2015
"The Nature of Editing"
"The Triage Approach"
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine forum: Something Is Going to Happen
"From Page to Screen," Aug 5, 2015
FundsForWriters
"Long Story Short," TBP
Henrico Co. Virginia, Public Schools
"What Is a Mystery Short Story?" Dec 2004
How I Got Published and What I Learned Along the Way (Camden Park Press), Sep 2019
"Short and Sweet"
Laughter Loaf
"A Boy and His Doggerel," Sept 15, 2004
Mississippi Digital Daily
"Mississippi Town Quiz," March 3, 2010
MKFliris Newslettter
"Cover Me—I’m Going In," Sept 16, 2000
Mysterious Stories & Tales
"What Is a Mystery Short Story?" May 2005
The Northside Sun
"Review: Finding Elmer Lee," April 6, 2006
SleuthSayers
"Plots and Plans," Sept 17, 2011
"Some Like It Hot," Oct 1, 2011
"Different Strokes," Oct 15, 2011
"Truth (?) in Fiction," Oct 29, 2011
"When the Grammar Cops Comma Calling," Nov 12, 2011
"Stranded," Nov 26, 2011
"Square Pegs, Round Holes," Dec 10, 2011
"Quirks in Progress," Dec 24, 2011
"Unicorns in Pajamas," Jan 7, 2012
"Tricky Diction," Jan 21, 2012
"Tongue Twisters (HP) Jan 21, 2012
"Night Work," Feb 19, 2012
"Three Amigos," March 5, 2012
"Show Me," March 17, 2012
"A Familiar Face," March 31, 2012
"Hills and Valleys," April 14, 2012
"Déjà Vu All Over Again," April 28, 2012
"Dream On," May 12, 2012
"A Lady of Many Talents," May 26, 2012
"It’s a Long Story," June 9, 2012
"Selling Short," June 23, 2012
"Home Alone," July 7, 2012
"On the Road Again," July 21, 2012
"Just for (Side) Kicks," Aug 4, 2012
"A Woman’s World Survival Guide," Aug 18, 2012
"The Washed and the Unwashed," Sept 15, 2012
"Mystery Week," Sept 29, 2012
"Boucherconnections," Oct 13, 2012
"The Gifted Child," Oct 27, 2012
"Cowboys and Aliens," Nov 10, 2012
"The Next Big Thing," Nov 24, 2012
"Old Dogs and New Tricks," Dec 8, 2012
"Jawdroppers and Tearjerkers," Dec 22, 2012
"Problems and (Re)solutions," Jan 5, 2013
"A Heavy Dose of Light Verse," Jan 19, 2013
"In Pursuit of Mystery Trivia," Feb 2, 2013
"The Beat Goes On," Feb 16, 2013
"Framed," March 16, 2013
"From Fargo to Argo," March 30, 2013
"Creating Deception," April 27, 2013
"Losing the Edge," May 11, 2013
"Hit List," May 25, 2013
"In So Many Words," June 8, 2013
"Candy Is Dandy," June 22, 2013
"For Your Amusement Only," July 6, 2013
"Hiaasen on the Cake," July 20, 2013
"Writers on the River," Aug 3, 2013
"Hail to the Chief," Aug 17, 2013
"Marketing 101," Aug 31, 2013
"Two Years and Counting," Sept 14, 2013
"A Series Discussion," Sept 28, 2013
"Writers of a Lost Art," Oct 12, 2013
"Sorry, I Need to See Some ID," Nov 9, 2013
"From A to Z," Nov 23, 2013
"Grand Theft Litto," Dec 7, 2013
"Annual Report," Dec 21, 2013
"Reversals of Fortune," Jan 4, 2014
"Getting into Big Trouble," Jan 18, 2014
"Weird Tales," Feb 1, 2014
"Liars' Club," Feb 15, 2014
"Giving Credit to the Editors," March 1, 2014
"Acronymania," March 15, 2014
"Pride and Preachiness," March 29, 2014
"On the Wire," April 12, 2014
"Daddy's Girl Weekend," April 26, 2014
"A Saturday Morning Post," May 10, 2014
"No More Mr. Nice Guy," May 24, 2014
"Where Will YOU Go Tomorrow?" June 7, 2014
"The Old and the New," July 12, 2014
"Stranded Again," July 26, 2014
"Submission Accomplished," Aug 9, 2014
"Play It Again," Aug 23, 2014
"Everybody's E-Talkin'," Sept 6, 2014
"Between Aha! and the P.O.," Sept 20, 2014
"Voyage of Strangers," Oct 4, 2014
"Name That Crook," Nov 1, 2014
"Incognito," Nov 15, 2014
"Based on the Novel by . . ." Nov 29, 2014
"Readings and Spellings," Dec 13, 2014
"Don't Say You Weren't Warned," Dec 27, 2014
"Observing Signs," Jan 10, 2015
"Mysterious, Thrilling, and Criminal," Jan 24, 2015
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," Feb 7, 2015
"Impersonation," Feb 21, 2015
"Dialogue Is Like a Box of Chocolates," March 7, 2015
"East Texas Tales," March 21, 2015
"Dial D for Dialect," April 4, 2015
"Stranded Yet Again," April 18, 2015
"Pace Yourself," May 2, 2015
"Dinner With the Poe Folks," May 16, 2015
"Rooting for the Bad Guy," May 30, 2015
"Shorts and Shortcuts," June 13, 2015
"Fee or Free?" June 27, 2015
"Epics of Miniature Proportions," July 4, 2015
"The Park Is Open," July 18, 2015
"Now, That's a Different Story," Aug 1, 2015
"A Rainy Day at the Beach," Aug 15, 2015
"OPs and No-OPs," Aug 29, 2015
"Mystery Missteps," Sept 19, 2015
"Milestone," Oct 3, 2015
"Boucherconnections 2015," Oct 17, 2015
"A Monster Mash," Oct 31, 2015
"A Bunch of Good Mysteries," Nov 7, 2015
"In Pursuit of Movie Trivia," Nov 21, 2015
"Posted and Stranded," Dec 5, 2015
"Move Over, Capt. Ahab," Dec 19, 2015
"A Bizarre Bazaar," Jan 2, 2016
"In Support of the Grammar Police," Jan 16, 2016
"Short and Long, Light and Dark," Jan 30, 2016
"International Westerns," Feb 6, 2016
"A Writer's Guide to Booksignings," Feb 20, 2016
"Let's Hear It for MMs," March 19, 2016
"Take a Message," April 2, 2016
"The Man With the Golden Typewriter," April 16, 2016
"To Whom It May Concern," April 30, 2016
"Shoot the Sheriff on the First Page," May 7, 2016
"American English vs. British English," May 21, 2016
"Crime (and Other) Scenes," June 4, 2016
"That's a Mystery to ME," June 18, 2016
"Edit As You Go?" July 2, 2016
"I Like Short Shorts," July 16, 2016
"Rising Stars," July 30, 2016
"Southern Mysteries," Aug 6, 2016
"A Literary Lawn Party," Sept 3, 2016
"Namedropping," Sept 14, 2016
"Boucherconfessions, 2016," Oct 1, 2016
"Anthopology," Oct. 15, 2016
"Things That Go Bump in the Night," Oct. 29, 2016
"Past or Present: A Tense Situation," Nov 19, 2016
"Writing What I Knew," Dec 3, 2016
"Twenty Years of B.A.M.S.," Dec 17, 2016
"The Pros and Cons of 'Pay to Play,'" Dec 31, 2016
"Take the Money and Ron," Jan 21, 2017
"For Dialogue Lovers Only," Feb 4, 2017
"As the Credits Go By," Feb 18, 2017
"Let's Do the Twist," Mar 4, 2017
"Guilty Pleasures," April 1, 2017
"So Mysterious: a Q&A With Gerald So," April 15, 2017
"The Little Engine That Couldn't: Writers and Self-Doubt," April 22, 2017
"Two Out of Fifteen--So Far," May 6, 2017
"Genre-Hopping and Conclusion-Jumping," May 20, 2017
"Zoning Out," June 3, 2017
"Talk/Don't Talk," June 17, 2017
"Mags and Anthos," July 1, 2017
"Nick Mason: A New Kind of Hero," July 15, 2017
"Four Stories," July 29, 2017
"Who Put the B in the BSP?" Aug 5, 2017
"Jewels From the Bargain Bin," Aug 19, 2017
"A Summer Plot," Sep 2, 2017
"A Trivial Pursuit," Sep 16, 2017
"Black Cats and Roosters," Sep 30, 2017
"Writing for the Record," Oct 7, 2017
"Old Friends and Old Castles, Nov 4, 2017
"A Book and a Movie," Nov 18, 2017
"From the Strand to the Subway: An Unplanned Journey," Dec 2, 2017
"A Punny Thing Happened on the Way to the Title," Dec 16, 2017
"Non-Vital Statistics--2017 in Review," Dec 30, 2017
"Three Kings," Jan 6, 2018
"Movie Music," Jan 20, 2018
"'I said, "He said,"' she said," Feb 3, 2018
"Draftsmanship," Feb 17, 2018
"Let's Hear It for Heroines," March 3, 2018
"25 Years in Shorts," March 17, 2108
"Space Opera and Horse Opera," March 31, 2018
"Options and Preferences," April 7, 2018
"Mean Girls," April 21, 2018
"Manuscript Mechanics," May 5, 2018
"Hints and Shortcuts," May 19, 2018
"The Twilight Zone Revisited," June 2, 2018
"Conference Memories," June 16, 2018
"100 and Counting," June 30, 2018
"Unsung Heroes," July 7, 2018
"Full Disclosure," July 21, 2018
"The President Is Missing," Aug 4, 2018
"Wire Paladin, San Francisco," Aug 18, 2018
"POSTed, STRANDed, and BCMMed," Sep 1, 2018
"Life's Great Mysteries," Sep 15, 2018
"Where's a Grammar Cop When You Need One?" Sep 29, 2018
"A Whole Town--Imagine That," Oct 6, 2018
"Names and Pseudo-Names," Oct 20, 2018
"How B Is Your SP?" Nov 3, 2018
"Strike Up the Band: Stories and Music," Nov 17, 2018
"Two Strand Stories: Behind the Scenes," Dec 1, 2018
"A Series Conversation," Dec 15, 2018
"Grand (?) Openings," Dec 29, 2018
"Short Memories: 2018 in Review," Jan 5, 2019
"For Fun or for Profit?" Jan 19. 2019
"Southernisms," Feb 2, 2019
"Pop the Clutch: Back to the Fifties," Feb 16, 2019
"Good Directions," March 2, 2019
"A Short Line at the Movies," March 30, 2019
"Dreyer's English," April 6, 2019
"Please Consider the Attached Story . . ." April 20, 2019
"Bad News and Good News," May 4, 2019
"East Texas Tales, Part 2," May 18, 2019
"A H8ful Play," June 1, 2019
"Anthology Psychology." June 15. 2019
"Am I Saying It Right?" June 29. 2019
"Apocalypse Soon," July 6, 2019
"A Saturday Post About the Saturday Evening Post," July 20, 2019
"How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Very Long Titles," Aug 3, 2019
"The Best of the Bad Guys," Aug 17, 2019
"A Guide in a Strange Land," Aug 31, 2019
"Lost in Africa," Sep 7, 2019
"Acronyms and Backronyms," Sep 14, 2019
"Who, What, and Where," Oct 19, 2019
"A Pair of Kings," Nov 2, 2019
"Boucherconnections 2019," Nov 16, 2019
"A Story in Reverse," Nov 30, 2019
"More Experiments," Dec 7, 2019
"Get Thee Away, Thesaurus," Dec 21, 2019
"Short Memories: 2019 in Review" Jan 4, 2020
"Writing for Free," Jan 18, 2020
"Literary Trivia, Recycled," Feb 1, 2020
"Building Crow's Nest, EQMM, Jan/Feb 2020," Feb 15, 2020
"A Different Kind of Movie," Feb 29, 2020
"Pure Goldman," March 7, 2020
"Super-Short Stories," March 21, 2020
"Creating 'Rhonda and Clyde," Issue #5, BCMM," April 4, 2020
"Downer Endings," April 18, 2020
"Strange but True," May 2, 2020
"Do's and Don'ts, Wills and Won'ts, Part 1," May 30, 2020
"Do's and Don'ts, Wills and Won'ts, Part 2," June 6, 2020
"A Movie Quiz for the Pandemic," June 20, 2020
"Political Fiction," July 4, 2020
"Stranded During the Pandemic," July 18, 2020
"Recognized and Tuckerized," Aug 1, 2020
"'Just Shoot Anywhere,' Tom Said Aimlessly," Aug 15, 2020
"Once Again in the Bargain Bin," Aug 29, 2020
"Prepare to Launch," Sep 5, 2020
"Who Are Those Short People?" Sept 19, 2020
"A Semifinal Word on Semicolons," Oct 3, 2020
". . . And Now for Something Different," Oct 17, 2020
"Themed and Tailored," Oct 31, 2020
"Pay or Play -- Yea or Nay?" Nov 7, 2020
"The Same Old Story," Nov 21, 2020
"Locked Down and Writing," Dec 5, 2020
"The Second Time Around," Dec 19, 2020
"A Blurb in the Hand," Jan 2, 2021
"What a Character," Jan 16, 2021
"Behold a Black Cat," Jan 30, 2021
"Aussies on Hossies," Feb 6, 2021
"As You Wish," Feb 20, 2021
"Cover Me--I'm Going in," Mar 6, 2021
"Hitched and Posted," Mar 20, 2021
"From Alice to Zorro," April 3, 2021
"Choices and Changes," April 17, 2021
"Stagecoaches and Starships," May 1, 2021
"The Road to Writing 'The Road to Bellville,'" May 15, 2021
"Going to Work in Shorts," June 5, 2021
"Moonlight & Misadventures," June 19, 2021
"Hope to Hear from You Soon, July 3, 2021
"Voices from the Past," July 17, 2021
"Stories, Slightly Used," July 31, 2021
"What the Characters Do," Aug 7, 2021
"Surviving in a Woman's World," Aug 21, 2021
"Two September Stories," Sep 4, 2021
"Ten Years at SS," Sep 18, 2021
"Mystery Magazines," Oct 16, 2021
"Movie Firsts," Oct 30, 2021
"Hooked on Crime(utopia)," Nov 6, 2021
"Whose Chose the Prose for Those Anthos?" Nov 20, 2021
"The Z-Files," Dec 4, 2021
"Peeves and Preferences," Dec 18, 2021
"2021 in Review," Jan 1, 2022
"A Hundred a Day, and Expenses," Jan 15, 2022
"MacGuffins," Jan 29, 2022
"Why Tock-Tick Doesn't Sound Right," Feb 5, 2022
"Deja Vu All Over Again . . . One Last Time," Feb 19, 2022
"What's a Western Doing in My Mystery Magazine?" Mar 5, 2022
"News of the World," Mar 19, 2022
"Coming Attractions," Apr 2, 2022
"This Little Story Went to Market," Apr 16, 2022
"Building a Dollhouse," Apr 30, 2022
"Funny Business," May 7, 2022
"Reading About Writing," May 21, 2022
"Saving Mrs. Hapwell, Over and Over," June 4, 2022
"Plots and Characters," June 18, 2022
"Good Times with the Idiot Box," July 2, 2022
"Mixing Genres," July 16, 2022
"Isn't This Where We Came In?" July 30, 2022
"My Stranded Stories," Aug 6, 2022
"Ethel, Is That Henry Fonda," Aug 20, 2022
"The Days of Using Proper English Are Went," Sep 3, 2022
"Real or Nonreal," Sep 17, 2022
"Fictional Mistakes (Onscreen and Off)," Oct 1, 2022
"Second Chances," Oct 15, 2022
"And Don't Call Me Shirley," Oct 29, 2022
"Three Hitchcock Stories," Nov 5, 2022
"Treasures from the Sock Drawer," Nov 19, 2022
"Happy in my Shorts," Dec 3, 2022
"An Early Christmas," Dec 17, 2022
"2022 in Review," Dec 31, 2022
"And Don't Call Me Shirley," Jan 14, 2022
"A Cold Case," Jan 21, 2023
"Midstory Surprises," Feb 4, 2023
"A Sense of Entitlement," Feb 18, 2023
"A Sense of Entitlement, Part 2," March 4, 2023
"That's Easy for You to Say," March 18, 2023
"Taking Stock of the Markets," April 1, 2023
"Don't Mess Up a Good Thing," April 15, 2023
"Simultaneous Submissions," April 29, 2023
"Pay to Play--A New Look at an Old Question," May 20, 2023
"Springtime Stories," June 3, 2023
"A Western Fantasy," June 17, 2023
"Another Box Of Chocolates, 15 Years Later," July 1, 2023
"Afterthoughts," July 15, 2023
"Here Come de Judge," July 29, 2023
"Sequels, Not Equals," Aug 5, 2023
"I Don't Say Eye-ther, not Nigh-ther Nee-ther," August 19, 2023
"Where'd THAT Story Come From?," Sep 2, 2023
"September Stories," Oct 7, 2023
"Happiness Is a Beatles Anthology," Oct 21, 2023
"Hitchcock and Sherlock," Nov 4, 2023
"The Storia Story," Nov 18, 2023
"Rocks in My Socks," Dec 2, 2023
"Putting Faces to Names," Dec 16, 2023
"2023 in Review," Dec 30, 2023
"Who Put the B in the BSP, Version 2," Jan 6, 2024
"Doing Its Zone Thing," Jan 20, 2024
"Waiting Is Another Story," Feb 3, 2024
"Two Dozen Writers Go into a Bar . . .," Feb 17, 2024
"Howtellums--They're All Mysteries to Me," March 2, 2024
"Plotters and Pantsers," March 16, 2024
"The Best Movies You've Never Heard Of," March 30, 2024
"Ups and Downs," April 6, 2024
"Dryer Is a Noun," April 20, 2024
"'Damn, I've Struck Oil,' Tom Gushed Crudely," May 4, 2024
"From MM to WW," May 18, 2024
"Titles, Titles, Everywhere, and Not a One Will Work," June 1, 2024
"Go Do that Voodoo that You Do So Well," June 15, 2024
"I'll Have a History/Mystery, Please--with a Twist," June 29, 2024
"Historicals with Horses," July 6, 2024
Southern Writers on Writing (University Press of Mississippi), May 2018
"In the Land of Cotton"
The Strand Magazine forum: Mystery Center
"The Recipe for a Great Short Story" Feb 17, 2015
Triumphs
"Cover Me—I’m Going In," Spring 2001
The Writer’s Journey Journal, Wolfmont Press, 2009
"Writing Short and Tight"
Writing-World
"What Is a Mystery Short Story?" May 21, 2003
"Cover Me—I’m Going In," July 26, 2001
"Researching Mystery Short Stories," Aug 22, 2003
"Choosing the Right Name for Your Story," March 2006
"Splitting Christmas"
The Clarion-Ledger
Review: GravesEnd, Sep 2018
Criminal Brief
"New Kid on the Block," Dec 29, 2007
"It’s a Mystery to Me," Jan 5, 2008
"Picture This," Jan 12, 2008
"Lost in Translation," Jan 19, 2008
"Title Tale," Jan 26, 2008
"In the Land of Cotton," Feb 2, 2008
"Literary vs. Genre," Feb 9, 2008
"The Usual Suspects," Feb 16, 2008
"Screen Test," Feb 23, 2008
"The Idea Machine," March 1, 2008
"Funny Business," March 8, 2008
"Dialogue is Like a Box of Chocolates," March 15, 2008
"I Like Short Shorts," March 22, 2008
"Starting Out," March 29, 2008
"Fantasyland," April 5, 2008
"Character Study," April 12, 2008
"Thanks But No Thanks," April 19, 2008
"An Element of Style," April 26, 2008
"Why Won’t Johnny Read?" May 3, 2008
"The Old Man and the Sand and Sea," May 10, 2008
"Who Was that Masked Man?" May 17, 2008
"Facts in Fiction," May 24, 2008
"Night Vision," May 31, 2008
"Long Story Short," June 7, 2008
"Storybooks," June 14, 2008
"Success Story," June 21, 2008
"Group Therapy," June 28, 2008
"Map Quest," July 5, 2008
"Teamwork," July 12, 2008
"Quotable Notables," July 19, 2008
"Remembering Neverland," July 26, 2008
"At Ease With These Apostrophes," Aug 2, 2008
"I Made It Up," Aug 9, 2008
"The Wrong Stuff," Aug 16, 2008
"Immortality," Aug 23, 2008
"That’s Entertainment," Aug 30, 2008
"Okay, That’s a Wrap," Sept 6, 2008
"Sign Language," Sept 13, 2008
"Specialty Items," Sept 20, 2008
"A Sense of Disclosure – Part 1," Sept 27, 2008
"A Sense of Disclosure – Part 2," Oct 4, 2008
"A Cliche a Day," Oct 11, 2008
"Conference Notes," Oct 18, 2008
"Character Sketch," Oct 25, 2008
"I Think This Is Where We Came In," Nov 1, 2008
"A 360-Degree Story Arc," Nov 8, 2008
"Long Live the King," Nov 15, 2008
"Stories About Stories," Nov 22, 2008
"Hyphen the Terrible," Nov 29, 2008
"Opening Volleys," Dec 6, 2008
"For What It’s Worth," Dec 13, 2008
"Lighten Up a Little," Dec 20, 2008
"Whoa—I Didn’t See That Coming," Dec 27, 2008
"A Pack of Lies," Jan 3, 2009
"Shorter Than Short," Jan 10, 2009
"Where’d You Get a Name Like That?" Jan 17, 2009
"Checklist," Jan 24, 2009
"Don’t Try This at Home," Jan 31, 2009
"Title Search," Feb 7, 2009
"A Story in a Nutshell," Feb 14, 2009
"A Bookful of Authors," Feb 21, 2009
"Blessings in Disguise," Feb 28, 2009
"What’s in It for Me?," March 7, 2009
"I’m Hearing Voices," March 14, 2009
"Interior Monologue," March 21, 2009
"A.K.A. John Smith," March 28, 2009
"The Cheering Section," April 4, 2009
"Partners in Crime," April 11, 2009
"Playing at Work," April 18, 2009
"Daddy, Where Do Stories Come From?" April 25, 2009
"Running the Middles," May 2, 2009
"Open Up—It’s the Grammar Police," May 9, 2009
"And the Winner Is . . ." May 16, 2009
"What’s the Big Hurry?" May 23, 2009
"Looking West," May 30, 2009
"English Comp-lications," June 6, 2009
"Smartly Done," June 13, 2009
"Elmore and More," June 20, 2009
"McKnight Work," June 27, 2009
"Short Cuts," July 4, 2009
"Mad for Magazines," July 11, 2009
"Playing Favorites," July 18, 2009
"Thirty Pairs of Shorts," July 25, 2009
"Don’t Read Page 80," Aug 1, 2009
"Psychobabble," Aug 8, 2009
"Location, Location, Location," Aug 15, 2009
"Spellbound," Aug 22, 2009
"Dial S for Suspense," Aug 29, 2009
"Professional Help," Sept 5, 2009
"Slow Men at Work," Sept 12, 2009
"Another Box of Chocolates," Sept 19, 2009
"Class Notes," Sept 26, 2009
"No Boredom in Barrdom," Oct 3, 2009
"The Second Time Around," Oct 10, 2009
"Patients, Patients," Oct 17, 2009
"Conference Call," Oct 24, 2009
"From the Horse’s Mouth," Oct 31, 2009
"Smile When You Say That," Nov 7, 2009
"Home Alone," Nov 14, 2009
"A Hundred Easy Pieces," Nov 21, 2009
"My Own V of POV," Nov 28, 2009
"If I Were a Ritchie Man," Dec 5, 2009
"Criminal Records," Dec 12, 2009
"Mixed Company," Dec 19, 2009
"Dialogjam," Dec 26, 2009
"Outside Assistance," Jan 2, 2010
"Bill’s Briefs," Jan 9, 2010
"A Guy in a Woman’s World," Jan 16, 2010
"In God’s Country," Jan 23, 2010
"Inside Info," Jan 30, 2010
"Strike Up the Band," Feb 6, 2010
"Summer Rose—Part 1," Feb 13, 2010
"Write What You Like," Feb 20, 2010
"Colonization," Feb 27, 2010
"Adventures in Paradise," March 6, 2010
"Fandemonium," March 13, 2010
"A Matter of Timing," March 20, 2010
"Setting the Stage," March 27, 2010
"A Good Story and Other Stories," April 3, 2010
"Dreaming of Money," April 10, 2010
"Getting Caught," April 17, 2010
"Journalism," April 24, 2010
"Aboard The Busted Flush," May 1, 2010
"Think You Used Enough Dynamite There, Butch?" May 8, 2010
"A Dark and Stormy Brain," May 15, 2010
"Soup-from-the-Cannes Film Festival," May 22, 2010
"Totally Lost," June 5, 2010
"The First Little Piggy," June 12, 2010
"Dashes and Splats," June 19, 2010
"Short and Southern," June 26, 2010
"Bio Mechanics," July 3, 2010
"Great Expectations," July 10, 2010
"Informal is Normal," July 17, 2010
"Movie Talk," July 24, 2010
"Inspect Your Gadgets," July 31, 2010
"What’s That Boy Sayin’?," Aug 7, 2010
"Unappreciated," Aug 14, 2010
"Zapped," Aug 21, 2010
"Lesser Evils," Aug 28, 2010
"If You Don’t Know Your Burro From a Burrow," Sept 4, 2010
"Ticket, Please," Sept 11, 2010
"Call Me Later—I’m Writing," Sept 18, 2010
"Bond Fans Are Forever," Sept 25, 2010
"Drove My Chevy to the Levee but the Levee Was Dry," Oct 2, 2010
"Easy Does It (Sometimes)," Oct 9, 2010
"A Room Without a View," Oct 16, 2010
"The King of Shorts," Oct 23, 2010
"Before the Shooting Starts," Oct 30, 2010
"A Hard Way to Make an Easy Living," Nov 6, 2010
"Prolonging the Agony," Nov 13, 2010
"Oh What a Tangled Web," Nov 20, 2010
"Unoriginal Sins," Nov 27, 2010
"Signing Bonus ," Dec 4, 2010
"Back to (and From) the Future," Dec 11, 2010
"Step Into My LaBORatory," Dec 18, 2010
"Comfort and Joy," Dec 25, 2010
"Thoughts on 1/1/11," Jan 1, 2011
"The Best-Laid Plans," Jan 8, 2011
"A Fantasy World," Jan 15, 2011
"Stories for Sale—New & Used," Jan 22, 2011
"Nobody Does It Better," Jan 29, 2011
"Dumb & Dumber," Feb 5, 2011
"Collectibiles," Feb 12, 2011
"Expect the Unexpected," Feb 19, 2011
"The Same Old Story," Feb 26, 2011
"Coen Crazy," March 5, 2011
"Now Available in Two Flavors," March 12, 2011
"Chapter and Verse," March 19, 2011
"Murder, Texas Style," March 26, 2011
"Hey, You! Yes, YOU!!" April 2, 2011
"The Sincerest Form of Flattery," April 9, 2011
"Pages of Stories, Part 1," April 16, 2011
"Radio Activity: A True Story," April 23, 2011
"Kid Stuff," April 30, 2011
"Perception Is Everything," May 13, 2011
"Booklist," May 20, 2011
"An Unfortunate Choice of Words," May 27, 2011
"Police Story," June 4, 2011
"Fort Lauderdale Vice," June 11, 2011
"Advice Column?" June 18, 2011
"In Their Spare Time," June 25, 2011
"Unfinished Business," July 2, 2011
"Bits and Pieces," July 9, 2011
"Selling Them Short," July 23, 2011
"Neither Noir nor Neo-Noir," July 30, 2011
"A Little Help From Your Friends," Aug 6, 2011
"Fun and Names," Aug 13, 2011
"The Customer Is Always (?) Right," Aug 20, 2011
"Unidentified Flying Boogeyman," Aug 27, 2011
"A Helpful Discussion," Sept 3, 2011
"A Story by Any Other Name," Sept 10, 2011
"Writing Tight," Sept 17, 2011
Edit Is a Four-Letter Word, by Glynis Scrivens, Compass Books, 2015
"The Nature of Editing"
"The Triage Approach"
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine forum: Something Is Going to Happen
"From Page to Screen," Aug 5, 2015
FundsForWriters
"Long Story Short," TBP
Henrico Co. Virginia, Public Schools
"What Is a Mystery Short Story?" Dec 2004
How I Got Published and What I Learned Along the Way (Camden Park Press), Sep 2019
"Short and Sweet"
Laughter Loaf
"A Boy and His Doggerel," Sept 15, 2004
Mississippi Digital Daily
"Mississippi Town Quiz," March 3, 2010
MKFliris Newslettter
"Cover Me—I’m Going In," Sept 16, 2000
Mysterious Stories & Tales
"What Is a Mystery Short Story?" May 2005
The Northside Sun
"Review: Finding Elmer Lee," April 6, 2006
SleuthSayers
"Plots and Plans," Sept 17, 2011
"Some Like It Hot," Oct 1, 2011
"Different Strokes," Oct 15, 2011
"Truth (?) in Fiction," Oct 29, 2011
"When the Grammar Cops Comma Calling," Nov 12, 2011
"Stranded," Nov 26, 2011
"Square Pegs, Round Holes," Dec 10, 2011
"Quirks in Progress," Dec 24, 2011
"Unicorns in Pajamas," Jan 7, 2012
"Tricky Diction," Jan 21, 2012
"Tongue Twisters (HP) Jan 21, 2012
"Night Work," Feb 19, 2012
"Three Amigos," March 5, 2012
"Show Me," March 17, 2012
"A Familiar Face," March 31, 2012
"Hills and Valleys," April 14, 2012
"Déjà Vu All Over Again," April 28, 2012
"Dream On," May 12, 2012
"A Lady of Many Talents," May 26, 2012
"It’s a Long Story," June 9, 2012
"Selling Short," June 23, 2012
"Home Alone," July 7, 2012
"On the Road Again," July 21, 2012
"Just for (Side) Kicks," Aug 4, 2012
"A Woman’s World Survival Guide," Aug 18, 2012
"The Washed and the Unwashed," Sept 15, 2012
"Mystery Week," Sept 29, 2012
"Boucherconnections," Oct 13, 2012
"The Gifted Child," Oct 27, 2012
"Cowboys and Aliens," Nov 10, 2012
"The Next Big Thing," Nov 24, 2012
"Old Dogs and New Tricks," Dec 8, 2012
"Jawdroppers and Tearjerkers," Dec 22, 2012
"Problems and (Re)solutions," Jan 5, 2013
"A Heavy Dose of Light Verse," Jan 19, 2013
"In Pursuit of Mystery Trivia," Feb 2, 2013
"The Beat Goes On," Feb 16, 2013
"Framed," March 16, 2013
"From Fargo to Argo," March 30, 2013
"Creating Deception," April 27, 2013
"Losing the Edge," May 11, 2013
"Hit List," May 25, 2013
"In So Many Words," June 8, 2013
"Candy Is Dandy," June 22, 2013
"For Your Amusement Only," July 6, 2013
"Hiaasen on the Cake," July 20, 2013
"Writers on the River," Aug 3, 2013
"Hail to the Chief," Aug 17, 2013
"Marketing 101," Aug 31, 2013
"Two Years and Counting," Sept 14, 2013
"A Series Discussion," Sept 28, 2013
"Writers of a Lost Art," Oct 12, 2013
"Sorry, I Need to See Some ID," Nov 9, 2013
"From A to Z," Nov 23, 2013
"Grand Theft Litto," Dec 7, 2013
"Annual Report," Dec 21, 2013
"Reversals of Fortune," Jan 4, 2014
"Getting into Big Trouble," Jan 18, 2014
"Weird Tales," Feb 1, 2014
"Liars' Club," Feb 15, 2014
"Giving Credit to the Editors," March 1, 2014
"Acronymania," March 15, 2014
"Pride and Preachiness," March 29, 2014
"On the Wire," April 12, 2014
"Daddy's Girl Weekend," April 26, 2014
"A Saturday Morning Post," May 10, 2014
"No More Mr. Nice Guy," May 24, 2014
"Where Will YOU Go Tomorrow?" June 7, 2014
"The Old and the New," July 12, 2014
"Stranded Again," July 26, 2014
"Submission Accomplished," Aug 9, 2014
"Play It Again," Aug 23, 2014
"Everybody's E-Talkin'," Sept 6, 2014
"Between Aha! and the P.O.," Sept 20, 2014
"Voyage of Strangers," Oct 4, 2014
"Name That Crook," Nov 1, 2014
"Incognito," Nov 15, 2014
"Based on the Novel by . . ." Nov 29, 2014
"Readings and Spellings," Dec 13, 2014
"Don't Say You Weren't Warned," Dec 27, 2014
"Observing Signs," Jan 10, 2015
"Mysterious, Thrilling, and Criminal," Jan 24, 2015
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," Feb 7, 2015
"Impersonation," Feb 21, 2015
"Dialogue Is Like a Box of Chocolates," March 7, 2015
"East Texas Tales," March 21, 2015
"Dial D for Dialect," April 4, 2015
"Stranded Yet Again," April 18, 2015
"Pace Yourself," May 2, 2015
"Dinner With the Poe Folks," May 16, 2015
"Rooting for the Bad Guy," May 30, 2015
"Shorts and Shortcuts," June 13, 2015
"Fee or Free?" June 27, 2015
"Epics of Miniature Proportions," July 4, 2015
"The Park Is Open," July 18, 2015
"Now, That's a Different Story," Aug 1, 2015
"A Rainy Day at the Beach," Aug 15, 2015
"OPs and No-OPs," Aug 29, 2015
"Mystery Missteps," Sept 19, 2015
"Milestone," Oct 3, 2015
"Boucherconnections 2015," Oct 17, 2015
"A Monster Mash," Oct 31, 2015
"A Bunch of Good Mysteries," Nov 7, 2015
"In Pursuit of Movie Trivia," Nov 21, 2015
"Posted and Stranded," Dec 5, 2015
"Move Over, Capt. Ahab," Dec 19, 2015
"A Bizarre Bazaar," Jan 2, 2016
"In Support of the Grammar Police," Jan 16, 2016
"Short and Long, Light and Dark," Jan 30, 2016
"International Westerns," Feb 6, 2016
"A Writer's Guide to Booksignings," Feb 20, 2016
"Let's Hear It for MMs," March 19, 2016
"Take a Message," April 2, 2016
"The Man With the Golden Typewriter," April 16, 2016
"To Whom It May Concern," April 30, 2016
"Shoot the Sheriff on the First Page," May 7, 2016
"American English vs. British English," May 21, 2016
"Crime (and Other) Scenes," June 4, 2016
"That's a Mystery to ME," June 18, 2016
"Edit As You Go?" July 2, 2016
"I Like Short Shorts," July 16, 2016
"Rising Stars," July 30, 2016
"Southern Mysteries," Aug 6, 2016
"A Literary Lawn Party," Sept 3, 2016
"Namedropping," Sept 14, 2016
"Boucherconfessions, 2016," Oct 1, 2016
"Anthopology," Oct. 15, 2016
"Things That Go Bump in the Night," Oct. 29, 2016
"Past or Present: A Tense Situation," Nov 19, 2016
"Writing What I Knew," Dec 3, 2016
"Twenty Years of B.A.M.S.," Dec 17, 2016
"The Pros and Cons of 'Pay to Play,'" Dec 31, 2016
"Take the Money and Ron," Jan 21, 2017
"For Dialogue Lovers Only," Feb 4, 2017
"As the Credits Go By," Feb 18, 2017
"Let's Do the Twist," Mar 4, 2017
"Guilty Pleasures," April 1, 2017
"So Mysterious: a Q&A With Gerald So," April 15, 2017
"The Little Engine That Couldn't: Writers and Self-Doubt," April 22, 2017
"Two Out of Fifteen--So Far," May 6, 2017
"Genre-Hopping and Conclusion-Jumping," May 20, 2017
"Zoning Out," June 3, 2017
"Talk/Don't Talk," June 17, 2017
"Mags and Anthos," July 1, 2017
"Nick Mason: A New Kind of Hero," July 15, 2017
"Four Stories," July 29, 2017
"Who Put the B in the BSP?" Aug 5, 2017
"Jewels From the Bargain Bin," Aug 19, 2017
"A Summer Plot," Sep 2, 2017
"A Trivial Pursuit," Sep 16, 2017
"Black Cats and Roosters," Sep 30, 2017
"Writing for the Record," Oct 7, 2017
"Old Friends and Old Castles, Nov 4, 2017
"A Book and a Movie," Nov 18, 2017
"From the Strand to the Subway: An Unplanned Journey," Dec 2, 2017
"A Punny Thing Happened on the Way to the Title," Dec 16, 2017
"Non-Vital Statistics--2017 in Review," Dec 30, 2017
"Three Kings," Jan 6, 2018
"Movie Music," Jan 20, 2018
"'I said, "He said,"' she said," Feb 3, 2018
"Draftsmanship," Feb 17, 2018
"Let's Hear It for Heroines," March 3, 2018
"25 Years in Shorts," March 17, 2108
"Space Opera and Horse Opera," March 31, 2018
"Options and Preferences," April 7, 2018
"Mean Girls," April 21, 2018
"Manuscript Mechanics," May 5, 2018
"Hints and Shortcuts," May 19, 2018
"The Twilight Zone Revisited," June 2, 2018
"Conference Memories," June 16, 2018
"100 and Counting," June 30, 2018
"Unsung Heroes," July 7, 2018
"Full Disclosure," July 21, 2018
"The President Is Missing," Aug 4, 2018
"Wire Paladin, San Francisco," Aug 18, 2018
"POSTed, STRANDed, and BCMMed," Sep 1, 2018
"Life's Great Mysteries," Sep 15, 2018
"Where's a Grammar Cop When You Need One?" Sep 29, 2018
"A Whole Town--Imagine That," Oct 6, 2018
"Names and Pseudo-Names," Oct 20, 2018
"How B Is Your SP?" Nov 3, 2018
"Strike Up the Band: Stories and Music," Nov 17, 2018
"Two Strand Stories: Behind the Scenes," Dec 1, 2018
"A Series Conversation," Dec 15, 2018
"Grand (?) Openings," Dec 29, 2018
"Short Memories: 2018 in Review," Jan 5, 2019
"For Fun or for Profit?" Jan 19. 2019
"Southernisms," Feb 2, 2019
"Pop the Clutch: Back to the Fifties," Feb 16, 2019
"Good Directions," March 2, 2019
"A Short Line at the Movies," March 30, 2019
"Dreyer's English," April 6, 2019
"Please Consider the Attached Story . . ." April 20, 2019
"Bad News and Good News," May 4, 2019
"East Texas Tales, Part 2," May 18, 2019
"A H8ful Play," June 1, 2019
"Anthology Psychology." June 15. 2019
"Am I Saying It Right?" June 29. 2019
"Apocalypse Soon," July 6, 2019
"A Saturday Post About the Saturday Evening Post," July 20, 2019
"How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Very Long Titles," Aug 3, 2019
"The Best of the Bad Guys," Aug 17, 2019
"A Guide in a Strange Land," Aug 31, 2019
"Lost in Africa," Sep 7, 2019
"Acronyms and Backronyms," Sep 14, 2019
"Who, What, and Where," Oct 19, 2019
"A Pair of Kings," Nov 2, 2019
"Boucherconnections 2019," Nov 16, 2019
"A Story in Reverse," Nov 30, 2019
"More Experiments," Dec 7, 2019
"Get Thee Away, Thesaurus," Dec 21, 2019
"Short Memories: 2019 in Review" Jan 4, 2020
"Writing for Free," Jan 18, 2020
"Literary Trivia, Recycled," Feb 1, 2020
"Building Crow's Nest, EQMM, Jan/Feb 2020," Feb 15, 2020
"A Different Kind of Movie," Feb 29, 2020
"Pure Goldman," March 7, 2020
"Super-Short Stories," March 21, 2020
"Creating 'Rhonda and Clyde," Issue #5, BCMM," April 4, 2020
"Downer Endings," April 18, 2020
"Strange but True," May 2, 2020
"Do's and Don'ts, Wills and Won'ts, Part 1," May 30, 2020
"Do's and Don'ts, Wills and Won'ts, Part 2," June 6, 2020
"A Movie Quiz for the Pandemic," June 20, 2020
"Political Fiction," July 4, 2020
"Stranded During the Pandemic," July 18, 2020
"Recognized and Tuckerized," Aug 1, 2020
"'Just Shoot Anywhere,' Tom Said Aimlessly," Aug 15, 2020
"Once Again in the Bargain Bin," Aug 29, 2020
"Prepare to Launch," Sep 5, 2020
"Who Are Those Short People?" Sept 19, 2020
"A Semifinal Word on Semicolons," Oct 3, 2020
". . . And Now for Something Different," Oct 17, 2020
"Themed and Tailored," Oct 31, 2020
"Pay or Play -- Yea or Nay?" Nov 7, 2020
"The Same Old Story," Nov 21, 2020
"Locked Down and Writing," Dec 5, 2020
"The Second Time Around," Dec 19, 2020
"A Blurb in the Hand," Jan 2, 2021
"What a Character," Jan 16, 2021
"Behold a Black Cat," Jan 30, 2021
"Aussies on Hossies," Feb 6, 2021
"As You Wish," Feb 20, 2021
"Cover Me--I'm Going in," Mar 6, 2021
"Hitched and Posted," Mar 20, 2021
"From Alice to Zorro," April 3, 2021
"Choices and Changes," April 17, 2021
"Stagecoaches and Starships," May 1, 2021
"The Road to Writing 'The Road to Bellville,'" May 15, 2021
"Going to Work in Shorts," June 5, 2021
"Moonlight & Misadventures," June 19, 2021
"Hope to Hear from You Soon, July 3, 2021
"Voices from the Past," July 17, 2021
"Stories, Slightly Used," July 31, 2021
"What the Characters Do," Aug 7, 2021
"Surviving in a Woman's World," Aug 21, 2021
"Two September Stories," Sep 4, 2021
"Ten Years at SS," Sep 18, 2021
"Mystery Magazines," Oct 16, 2021
"Movie Firsts," Oct 30, 2021
"Hooked on Crime(utopia)," Nov 6, 2021
"Whose Chose the Prose for Those Anthos?" Nov 20, 2021
"The Z-Files," Dec 4, 2021
"Peeves and Preferences," Dec 18, 2021
"2021 in Review," Jan 1, 2022
"A Hundred a Day, and Expenses," Jan 15, 2022
"MacGuffins," Jan 29, 2022
"Why Tock-Tick Doesn't Sound Right," Feb 5, 2022
"Deja Vu All Over Again . . . One Last Time," Feb 19, 2022
"What's a Western Doing in My Mystery Magazine?" Mar 5, 2022
"News of the World," Mar 19, 2022
"Coming Attractions," Apr 2, 2022
"This Little Story Went to Market," Apr 16, 2022
"Building a Dollhouse," Apr 30, 2022
"Funny Business," May 7, 2022
"Reading About Writing," May 21, 2022
"Saving Mrs. Hapwell, Over and Over," June 4, 2022
"Plots and Characters," June 18, 2022
"Good Times with the Idiot Box," July 2, 2022
"Mixing Genres," July 16, 2022
"Isn't This Where We Came In?" July 30, 2022
"My Stranded Stories," Aug 6, 2022
"Ethel, Is That Henry Fonda," Aug 20, 2022
"The Days of Using Proper English Are Went," Sep 3, 2022
"Real or Nonreal," Sep 17, 2022
"Fictional Mistakes (Onscreen and Off)," Oct 1, 2022
"Second Chances," Oct 15, 2022
"And Don't Call Me Shirley," Oct 29, 2022
"Three Hitchcock Stories," Nov 5, 2022
"Treasures from the Sock Drawer," Nov 19, 2022
"Happy in my Shorts," Dec 3, 2022
"An Early Christmas," Dec 17, 2022
"2022 in Review," Dec 31, 2022
"And Don't Call Me Shirley," Jan 14, 2022
"A Cold Case," Jan 21, 2023
"Midstory Surprises," Feb 4, 2023
"A Sense of Entitlement," Feb 18, 2023
"A Sense of Entitlement, Part 2," March 4, 2023
"That's Easy for You to Say," March 18, 2023
"Taking Stock of the Markets," April 1, 2023
"Don't Mess Up a Good Thing," April 15, 2023
"Simultaneous Submissions," April 29, 2023
"Pay to Play--A New Look at an Old Question," May 20, 2023
"Springtime Stories," June 3, 2023
"A Western Fantasy," June 17, 2023
"Another Box Of Chocolates, 15 Years Later," July 1, 2023
"Afterthoughts," July 15, 2023
"Here Come de Judge," July 29, 2023
"Sequels, Not Equals," Aug 5, 2023
"I Don't Say Eye-ther, not Nigh-ther Nee-ther," August 19, 2023
"Where'd THAT Story Come From?," Sep 2, 2023
"September Stories," Oct 7, 2023
"Happiness Is a Beatles Anthology," Oct 21, 2023
"Hitchcock and Sherlock," Nov 4, 2023
"The Storia Story," Nov 18, 2023
"Rocks in My Socks," Dec 2, 2023
"Putting Faces to Names," Dec 16, 2023
"2023 in Review," Dec 30, 2023
"Who Put the B in the BSP, Version 2," Jan 6, 2024
"Doing Its Zone Thing," Jan 20, 2024
"Waiting Is Another Story," Feb 3, 2024
"Two Dozen Writers Go into a Bar . . .," Feb 17, 2024
"Howtellums--They're All Mysteries to Me," March 2, 2024
"Plotters and Pantsers," March 16, 2024
"The Best Movies You've Never Heard Of," March 30, 2024
"Ups and Downs," April 6, 2024
"Dryer Is a Noun," April 20, 2024
"'Damn, I've Struck Oil,' Tom Gushed Crudely," May 4, 2024
"From MM to WW," May 18, 2024
"Titles, Titles, Everywhere, and Not a One Will Work," June 1, 2024
"Go Do that Voodoo that You Do So Well," June 15, 2024
"I'll Have a History/Mystery, Please--with a Twist," June 29, 2024
"Historicals with Horses," July 6, 2024
Southern Writers on Writing (University Press of Mississippi), May 2018
"In the Land of Cotton"
The Strand Magazine forum: Mystery Center
"The Recipe for a Great Short Story" Feb 17, 2015
Triumphs
"Cover Me—I’m Going In," Spring 2001
The Writer’s Journey Journal, Wolfmont Press, 2009
"Writing Short and Tight"
Writing-World
"What Is a Mystery Short Story?" May 21, 2003
"Cover Me—I’m Going In," July 26, 2001
"Researching Mystery Short Stories," Aug 22, 2003
"Choosing the Right Name for Your Story," March 2006