The Importance of Place in Story
My mystery novels, Null Pointer and Kill Dash Nine are both set in my home town of Boise, Idaho. How important is the setting or the place where a story …
Free Software
Did you you know that my novels are written using free software? Not only is the writing program free, so is the operating system that I use. Both pieces of …
Kill Dash Nine Release Day!
Kill Dash Nine is now available wherever ebooks are sold. Someone is killing the members of Joshua’s gaming clan. The primary suspect is the newest member of the group, a …
Writing Update
I’m proceeding with writing the third Joshua Jones Mystery novel – Return False. This one will deal with the history of several of the main characters and the cyber elements …
Null Pointer Ebook For All
As I prepared to launch the ebook premier of Kill Dash Nine (06OCT2020), I realized that the first Joshua Jones Mystery – Null Pointer, was only available on Kindle. So …
Chapter 0
A tradition that I started with my first Joshua Jones novel is that the first chapter is always zero. If you’re a programmer, you get this right away. If you’re …
References, “The Cuckoo’s Egg”
This is the first in a series of posts about things that I reference in my Cybercrime novels and shorts. In the yet unreleased novel, Kill Dash Nine, I have …
New Short Story
I’ve recently completed a new short story set in the Joshua Jones Mystery universe. It’s called Ten Cent Pistol. I’m not sure what exactly I’m going to do with it …
The Big Picture
Mystery novels are often made into a series of books that follow the same protagonist. Lots of examples abound like Sue Grafton’s Alphabet series that started with A is for …
The Next Novel
I’m currently shopping Kill Dash Nine to agents. If for some reason that book is completely rejected, I’ll go forward with doing it myself. In the meantime, I’m already working …
