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Big Book o’ Time

March 26, 2014 by Dave Knadler

time traveler's almanac

I can’t resist time-travel stories. So when I happened across The Time Traveler’s Almanac on Amazon, I hit the “buy now” button at very nearly the speed of light. If I’d been even quicker, maybe I could have read this post without the trouble of actually writing it. Or something like that. When you really analyze any story about time travel, things quickly have a way of […]

Filed Under: Books, reading, short stories

This time with feeling

January 11, 2012 by Dave Knadler

I‘m writing fiction again. As with running, it’s been awhile. After publishing a number of stories in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine a few years ago, I let it slide. I wasn’t happy about it, but I had my reasons. First, the financials weren’t working. Dividing payment for each story by the number of hours I put into it, it worked out that patrolling city streets for lost […]

Filed Under: short stories, Writing

Now available at newstands not quite everywhere

June 20, 2010 by Dave Knadler

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Aug. 2010 cover

It’s nice to see my name in print again. It’s also bittersweet, since “Dead Black Cadillac” is a story I wrote a couple of years ago, and sold a couple months later, and only now appears in print in what may be the least-read magazine in America. But I’m not complaining. Well, maybe I am complaining a little. A few months ago I concluded that cooler heads […]

Filed Under: short stories

Maybe Sin City isn’t much of a muse

March 3, 2009 by Dave Knadler

OK, I’ve plunged back into crime fiction, but I seem to have started at the shallow end of the pool: Murder in Vegas, a 2005 anthology of short stories edited by Michael Connelly. I found it at the library a few days ago and I was in a hurry. I like short stories, even though it’s rare to find a really good one. The yarns here — […]

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Reflections on some ancient tomes

February 8, 2009 by Dave Knadler

Whenever I visit my folks’ place in Montana, I can never head back home without a sack lunch and a hundred pounds of books. Mom’s always got a lot more food around than the two of them can eat — some of it a few weeks past the sell-by date — and a lot more books than her groaning shelves can safely hold. Putting away the lunch […]

Filed Under: Books, short stories, Writing

36 mystery tales for the price of none

September 3, 2007 by Dave Knadler

The problem with buying anthologies of mystery stories is that if you love them as I do, you’ll find quite a few you’ve already read. So it is with A Century of Great Suspense Stories, edited in 2001 by Jeffery Deaver. Of its 36 stories, I recognized maybe half a dozen, by such luminaries as Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Block, Harlan Ellison, Fredric Brown. So right away, I’d […]

Filed Under: short stories

In fiction, short is not always so sweet

July 4, 2007 by Dave Knadler

One of these days I suppose I should admit that my preferred creative form, short crime fiction, is all but dead. When’s the last time you enjoyed a good detective yarn that was under, say, 8,000 words? I thought so. Me too — even though I like writing short stories, I sure don’t read many of them these days. So why am I stuck on short stories? […]

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