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Jamie
Jul 17, 20243 min read
GOOD PROSE: Atwood Surfaces
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -- John Ruskin I keep waiting for...
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Jamie
Jul 10, 20244 min read
GOOD PROSE: Klavan's Strange Habit
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." -- Oscar Wilde Edgar...
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Jamie
Jul 5, 20243 min read
GOOD PROSE: Focus on Fiction
' Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In poets as true genius is but rare, True taste...
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Jamie
Jun 28, 20241 min read
Book Review: ARIZONA BOUNTY
James Reasoner’s latest is a fine addition to the resurgence of the Western There is no genre more American than the Western. It is easy,...
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Jamie
Jun 28, 20241 min read
Son of the Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Impossibly Complex Younger Women and Cold-War Wreckage When you’re a spy, you literally “are the job.” But what happens when the job ends...
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Jamie
Jan 12, 20245 min read
Why Westerns?
A Recovering Sci-fi Writer Reflects on a Change in Genre Blame On Spec magazine. The moment I cashed the check for my modest 1,500 word...
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Jamie
Aug 16, 20229 min read
BIKER FUNERAL: Rural Canadian Noir
After centuries of neglect, Canada seems to have finally found its moment in the global news cycle. From vaccine mandates to trucker...
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Jamie
May 11, 20213 min read
Forthcoming novel & writing news
On May 24th, my novel Time Out will be published by Wolfsinger. Time Out tells the story of Chris, son of refugees from the planet...
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Jamie
Jul 29, 20195 min read
REFLEXION by Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, a review
Big news stories, like people, leave a lasting impression and the Manson murders are a prime example. There is no shortage of Manson...
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Jamie
Apr 25, 20193 min read
CRUEL SUMMER: Cobra Kai's Dark Harvest
There is a moment in COBRA KAI's season two finale that perfectly encapsulates the moral tornado that is Johnny Lawrence's universe....
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Jamie
Feb 21, 20193 min read
A Dog, a Book and a Second Chance
When we first adopted Hero, we were warned that he was a reactive dog. Soon after he healed from the shotgun blast that filled his spine...
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Jamie
Jan 20, 20193 min read
The Year of the Aardvark
I sold my first short story, "The Meditation Machine", back in 2009. So 2019 is my tenth year in business as a working writer. When I...
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