I recently took a visiting friend to the Greenville Avenue location of Desperados (Michael Grant’s favorite Mexican Food restaurant; Uno y Dos). Had another fantastic meal.  Started with a top-shelf margarita and Desperado Tacos – Beef and finished with “Deep Fried Latte”.  That’s right, Deep Fried Latte!  It is the name of a dessert concocted [...]

New Technology is the proverbial “Jones” as in keeping up with the Jones’. Just in the last six decades we’ve gone from radio to black & white analog TV to color HDTV; from 78rpm, 45rpm, and LP records to MP3; from the dusty Gutenberg Bible to Jamaica Moon on Kindle.  It remains to be seen [...]

The 4th of July has come and gone, summer will fly by, Labor Day will be here too soon, followed by Halloween.  Now no one wants to hurry summer, but since mid-November will be here before we know it I’m putting the finishing touches on Michael Grant and Associates latest Black Book Investigation:  And… Never [...]

I guess doing something twice creates or establishes a tradition.  Honoring this tradition Solana D’Lamant has once again coined interview questions for me to answer, this time for Judas Oracle.  The ‘old’ interview (for Jamaica Moon) will remain in place on the ‘Author’ page.  This and subsequent interviews (and the like) will appear on the [...]

I find it hard to accept that the glorious defense of our country and its values of liberty and freedom, demonstrated by servicemen, on June 6, 1944 passed with so little fanfare or remembrance on this 66th anniversary.  On the beaches of France those 66 six years ago, thousands of our country’s young men, whose [...]

Love of Law Enforcement Runs in the Family From and early age I knew my father respected law men.  Though he was aware of the dangers I would face he was proud that I chose to be a Dallas Police Officer.  In fact, since I was not yet twenty-one, when I joined the DPD, he [...]

Some of the ‘millions’ of readers and viewers of this website have noticed some changes recently.  We had at first thought we would put up an ‘under construction’ sign but decided the changes would not take that long.  While the elements of the website remain the same, the process for posting and displaying them has [...]

In developing the story in my up-coming book  And… Never Again, when I got to Colorado with my characters… I, too, was cold and tired.  Mentally sitting in the hotel’s Friar’s Tavern watching ‘bad-guy’ Terry Dean Ballard, I knew Steve, the bartender, was going to ask me what I wanted.  I wanted something hot, invigorating [...]

Attended yesterday’s session of the DFW Writer’s Conference 2010 in Grapevine, Texas, just north and west of the DFW International Airport.  The conference was hosted by DFW Writers’ Workshop.  Over three hundred attendees enjoyed enlightening sessions by presenters such as: Paula LaRocque – Archetype as Story Engine [really great information]; Kristen Lamb – Social Media [...]

In the genre of fiction, the thriller is king followed closely by the mystery and the detective story. Both Jamaica Moon and Judas Oracle fill the bill. As a thriller, mystery, and fiction, the Black Book Investigations of private investigator Michael Grant provide an on-going slice of life containing, detectives, mysteries and murder. An ex-police [...]