"Then Marlene Dietrich appeared. Klara released her grip, as if daring Rolf to move. Rolf couldn’t." --Summer of Long Knives, page 113 The Blue Angel, based on a novel whose…
I've got a fair sized collection of published short stories that haven't been seen in ages and would be a pain to collect. (My friend Neil actually has copies of…
I use Grammarly for proofreading because to err may be human, but who the hell is satisfied with being human? The story twist is an ancient art, as old as stories themselves--think…
The next Summer of Long Knives Twitter chat will be Tuesday, October 15th, at 8pm Pacific. To join and follow the discussion, just use the hashtag #solk. The topic for…
The quote in the last post from Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels on the Louis/Schmeling fight was one I remembered from The Goebbels Experiment, a documentary made by First Run Features (who also…
Louis vs. Schmeling was hardly the first time race and racism mattered in boxing (see Jack Johnson, among others), and it wouldn't be the last. But the stakes both in…
Adolf Hitler makes a brief appearance in my novel, Summer of Long Knives, but his presence is felt everywhere in it. The state he built, which obliterated all the norms of…
There'll be others, weekly, actually, but you can say you got there before anyone else. Then later on, when the chat gets big, you can accuse me of selling out…