To be completely honest, it still does not seem real to me to have written a book about my life and experiences. After all, it’s my life. It’s what I’ve lived and to me, it’s normal with nothing special about it. Why in the world would someone be interested in reading something about me? Yet here we are. The seed was first planted during my first deployment by a writer who was in Iraq for a project. It was early 2005 and I took him out on … [Read more...]
Horror Author MJ Preston On “Building The Perfect Beast”
My first novel, THE EQUINOX, garnered a lot of love. People love monsters, and I believed, when I wrote it, that they were worn out on vampires and zombies. So, I wanted to write something beyond the usual trends. In retrospect, I might have to rethink that, considering that the vampires and zombies are still around. Walking Dead, What We Do in the Shadows, and so on… In the case of THE EQUINOX, our protagonist Daniel Blackbird has been … [Read more...]
SURVIVAL Photo Gallery
Photos from Vinnie Curto and Dennis Griffin's new book SURVIVAL … [Read more...]
Author Michael Fleeman On “Seeking Justice Against All Odds”
Can you have a murder case without a body? Early the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, Heather Elvis, a pretty 20-year-old hostess at the Myrtle Beach theme restaurant Tilted Kilt, drove out to a remote boat launch ramp along the Intracoastal Waterway and was never heard from again. After months of investigation, police arrived in force at the home of Sidney and Tammy Moorer and arrested the married couple with three children for … [Read more...]
Author Mark Anzalone On Why We Enjoy Horror
Why do we enjoy horror? This question has been batted around for quite some time, primarily due to the inhered irony of enjoying things that should, if they were real, terrify us. So, as a newly published author of horror, I thought I’d take my turn at bat. Something I should get right out of the way is that—like most people, I’d wager—I don’t read horror stories because they might frighten me. I read them because they fascinate me. The … [Read more...]
Author Glen Meek Talks About an Unlikely Intersection of Nuclear Testing and Organized Crime (Sort Of)
For thirty years, I covered crime and punishment as a television reporter in Las Vegas. Naturally, organized crime cases were part of that coverage. But, along with crime and courts, I also had another, very unusual beat: atomic testing. In the mid 1980s, before the US and Russia signed a treaty banning underground nuclear detonations (above ground testing had ended in 1963) there were usually several atom bomb tests each year in … [Read more...]
Oleg Konovalov Discusses Leaderology For The Digital Era
We are still hesitant to stop trying to create leaders by using approaches and techniques from the Industrial Era. We fail to consider that such a decades’ old approach fails in the new and radically demanding conditions of the Digital Age. Reliance on a few prominently gifted leaders is not enough anymore. At the same, new emerging contextual factors make leadership as a critical function even more complex and demanding than ever before – … [Read more...]
WRONG NUMBERS Photo Gallery
Check out the photos from Glen Meek and Dennis N. Griffin's new true crime book, WRONG NUMBERS! … [Read more...]
Katherine Ellison On “The Story That Wouldn’t Let Me Go”
The tale I tell in “Mothers & Murderers,” has haunted me for almost forty years -- and eluded me for nearly thirty. I was first entangled with its characters in the summer of 1981. At the time, I was a cub reporter, covering a San Jose, California, trial involving the contract murder of a wealthy bachelor named Howard Witkin. Ten years later, after the murder investigation took an unexpected turn, I wrote a book proposal that promptly sold … [Read more...]
TANTAMOUNT Photo Gallery
Get a closer look at the photos from Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester's new true crime TANTAMOUNT … [Read more...]
