The Quivering Pen

Congratulations to Lewis Parker* , winner of Terrence Holt's In the Valley of the Kings , last week's Friday Freebie book giveaway. ...

Somehow, I completely overlooked the fact that yesterday was the anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth--and that's a crime.  The...

For anyone who follows me on Twitter (@davidabrams1963 ), my age is not a difficult math problem to solve.  I've already had an over-the...

At the International House of Pancakes this morning, while eating hash browns that crunched with the afterglow of cigarettes and sipping wa...

Looking back through the journal I kept during my deployment to Iraq, I came across these four entries--four days which were pretty typical ...

Here's another section from the novel ( Fobbit ) on which I've been working this week.  This is fiction--combat-zone satire--but it...

Congratulations to Andrew Beck , winner of Rick Bass' Nashville Chrome , last week's Friday Freebie book giveaway. This week's...

For all the weight it's carried around over the years, it's a relatively thin novel.  Less than 200 pages in most paperback versi...

On today's menu: 1.   Congratulations to Lisa Peet , winner of last week's Hump Day Giveaway.  Lisa will soon be enjoying a copy o...

Congratulations to  Peter Armstrong , winner of Frederick Reuss' A Geography of Secrets , last week's Friday Freebie book giveaway. ...

Two days ago, President Obama called an official, albeit symbolic, end to the war in Iraq.  September 1 marked the beginning of what militar...