Come meet, greet and eat with authors Dennis Tafoya (Dope Thief) and Keith Gilman (Father's Day) tomorrow, Sunday, June 14, 1 p.m. at: BRIDGET FOY’S 200 South...

One thing I love about crime bookstores like Houston's Murder by the Book and Belfast's No Alibis or Toronto's Sleuth of Baker Street is the sense of community among workers and readers. Here in Houston, it's de rigeur to belong to at least two...

Here's my last batch of photos from Bouchercon 2009. Some are from me, 1, 4 and 6 are from Anita Thompson, and I may add some from Ali Karim if he puts them up. (Left: A wary waitress.) (Right: Anita Thompson in profil perdu.) (Left: The rubber duck...

Yep, there's no crime in this post and no beyond borders, either, just frontiers. But I'm telling you about this eye-opening little collection of four essays by Frederick Jackson Turner for a shopping list of reasons: 1) The man came from that great...

Macmillan is is lowering its royalty payments to authors on e-books, the New York Times reports. I thought the whole point of e-books was to lower production, shipping, storage and distribution costs — to save money, in other words. Would it hurt...

A discussion on Adrian McKinty's site takes me back to an eye-catching passage from John Buchan's spy thriller Greenmantle: "The ordinary man again will answer that Islam in Turkey is becoming a back number, and that Krupp guns are the new gods. Yet...