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Quick Change

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When I started this blog two months ago, my plan was to be very organized about what and when I posted. I wanted a long-form blog post on Mondays, a Wednesdays With questionnaire filled out by other authors on Wednesdays and something fun for Fridays. It was a good idea, and one that might work for some people. But not for me. Being a writer takes up an insane amount of time. Especially being a genre writer, where an author’s output …

Hitchcock or Disney

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It’s no secret that I’m a diehard fan of the works of both Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. I know, it sounds bizarre. No two men could be more different. Or are they? There’s a lot of humor in Hitchcock’s films, and more heart than he gets credit for. And some of Disney’s most famous works have a delicious dark streak to them. To bolster my argument, I’m starting an occasional feature called Hitchcock or Disney. I’ll post a quote …

Writing With … Steve Ulfelder

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Tackling the questionnaire today is Steve Ulfelder, author of PURGATORY CHASM, which was released by Minotaur Books last month. Steve is the co-owner of Flatout Motorsports, a company that builds race cars, and is an amateur racer himself. Before that, he spent 20 years as a journalist, writing mostly about business and technology, but also doing stories for car magazines and general-interest publications like the Boston Globe. Q. Tell us about your book and what inspired you to write it. PURGATORY …