Arizona author Michael Allan Scott recently found himself writing a high-profile murder mystery involving a local real estate developer. (Scottsdale, Arizona) November 19, 2012 – After [...]

If you are anything like me, most facets of life provide inspiration of one sort or another. True, life is not always a bowl of [...]

For many Baby Boomers, the first brush with Poe comes from Roger Corman and a series of horror movies from the 1960s:   The Pit and [...]

When I sat down to write the first book in the Lance Underphal Mystery series, I had only a vague concept of the genre—specifically, Mystery/Thriller. [...]

Okay, so he may has a bit of a head start, having published his break-out  novel, Carrie, in 1973.  And yes, he has a few [...]

To those curious, but who’ve yet to write mystery novels for a living, it can seem intriguing, mysterious—a strange confluence of alchemy, pot-boiling and cryptic [...]

Mystery and suspense, like any other commercially published genre, has an obligation to engage its readers. Writers on whole are a lazy bunch (and I [...]

Popular opinion (subject to the propaganda of vested interests) would have you believe that anything having to do with the paranormal, ESP, psychic phenomena and [...]

There is nothing else like it—the special bond between fathers and sons. For some, it’s agony, tearing them apart. For some, it’s the closest they’ll [...]

Here it is, nearly the middle of August (damn near my birthday) and I haven’t posted a blog since the end of July. What with [...]