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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...

Jamie
Jul 17, 20243 min read
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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...

Jamie
Jul 10, 20244 min read
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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...

Jamie
Jul 5, 20243 min read
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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,...

Jamie
Jun 28, 20241 min read
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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...

Jamie
Jun 28, 20241 min read
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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...

Jamie
Jan 12, 20245 min read
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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...

Jamie
Aug 16, 20229 min read
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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...

Jamie
May 11, 20213 min read
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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...

Jamie
Jul 29, 20195 min read
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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....

Jamie
Apr 25, 20193 min read
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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...

Jamie
Feb 21, 20193 min read
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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...

Jamie
Jan 20, 20193 min read
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