I worked for a literary magazine called the Chiron Review for a lot of years. I was one of two fiction editors, brought in for the last 10 ...

C.L. Swinney C. L. (Chris) Swinney is a narcotics investigator in the San Francisco Bay area. He has investigated hundreds of narcotics...

"Crowd funding" is one of the new buzz words being bandied around these days. If you aren't familiar with the concept, it is b...

“Procrastination is the thief of time” is a statement (or cliché) that I heard my older sister recite numerous times when I was little.  ...

As a writer you're never done learning. This can be daunting, especially when you stumble across a book that blows you away—like The P...

One day in high school, I found myself on my motor scooter as chunks of it began to fall away unceremoniously on the street. I was 6’2, bro...

Fifteen years ago this summer, the first story I ever sold to a professional paying market was published. It was for a writing contest, the ...