Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine has released a podcast of "Taking Care," one of my short stories.  It's a half-ho...

Happy 2019! I thought I'd start the New Year off right and talk about a change we're making to Mystery Playground this year. In ...

Kirsten Weiss, author of the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mysteries, is here today to talk about her thoughts on antiques and...

These rules for story telling from Pixar Story Artist, Emma Coats (@lawnrocket) were first issued in 2011 when she tweeted them to th...

The November issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine has hit the newsstands and it's full of wonderful mystery themed short stori...

There are 57 new TV shows debuting this fall. Many of these have some mystery or thriller element, but there are precious few shows I a...

We had the opportunity to see Tom Stoppard's wonderful play, Arcadia, at the  American Conservatory Theater  in San Francisco. (...

This month our book club is reading the novel, The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig. It's about the adventures and relationship of a...

"What fresh hell is this?" This is a first. I bought a book because of a Facebook page. It all started two years ago when my ...

Tomorrow night is the Oscars. In case you want to get in the spirit, we have all kinds of great resources to help you get ready.  ...

Mardi Gras season has started, and so we are devoting the next ten days to New Orleans and Fat Tuesday celebrations. Today's post ...

It's recycle Wednesday, where I share fun posts that I've found elsewhere on the Internet. Read and enjoy. Feel free to l...

We started this week’s episode at the faux cricket funeral, which was hard on all of us, and then we saw Smee vaporized, which was proba...

I had another post planned for today, but it never got written.  Mostly because I got lost in a good book.  One that I had read befor...

Once Upon a Time comes back from winter break tomorrow on Sunday, January 6th and there is so much to discuss. The last episode esta...