Question: How did you come up with the name of the book?   Interestingly enough, my agent was the one who suggested the title Every Deadly Kiss. Both my editor and I loved it so much that we decided to go for it (originally, I had an entire storyline built around a killer who would […]

Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of THE PAWN, I went through my files of transcript interviews that Crime View TV did with Patrick Bowers, a profiler, and a park ranger. Here’s the first transcript. We’ll be posting the other two soon!   EXCERPT FROM: Crime View Primetime EPISODE 759, Partition 1 of 3 TITLE: The […]

Steve, with the release of EVERY DEADLY KISS, will you be having any sort of book signings?  Our official book release party will be July 7th from 6 to 8pm at The Coffee Company in Elizabethton, Tennessee. While I’ll be signing copies of Every Deadly Kiss, we’ll also have a random drawing for our traditional […]

Let’s say that a big, reputable publisher (as in a branch of one of the big five) wants to publish a first-time author’s manuscript. What rights are most important for a first-time author to retain? Over the years I’ve found that many aspiring and first-time authors are concerned about rights—which ones to retain, which ones […]

Emotion is evoked through empathy (feeling the emotions along with the character) and sympathy (feeling emotions for a character). We vicariously feel emotions when we identify with the deep questions that the character is asking of themselves or the world. You need to find a connection point between your character and readers’ lives.   My […]