In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

“Pilate’s Cross” is inspired by the questions this terrible crime created but as a work of fiction it is set in a different place and time and has a more complex motive for the murders.

Writing is a pleasure but family is a blessing!

She hit the button again, holding her breath this time until she heard it.Soft, sibilant, as insubstantial as the breaths that came before: Shannon. The voice whispered Shannon. The blood rushed out of her head....

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

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Another misconception is that desires are insatiable. Admittedly, for the small segment of society that is clinically deranged, this statement may not hold true. But for those seeking riches, pleasure, or power, too much of...

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them…

Meeting writers is usually disappointing, at best. Writers who write sexy thrillers aren’t necessarily sexy or thrilling in person. Children’s book writers might look more like accountants, or axe murderers for that matter. Horror writers...

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle’s compass come.

Can you take out the angry eyes, Mrs. Potato Head, and just let me talk to you?

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.

She closed her eyes briefly, feeling sick. Olivia had experienced strangulation before. Having to look directly into the face of the person who was killing you made the experience beyond awful. But there were worse...

No evil ever came from a woman’s womb that wasn’t placed there first by a man.’… Tantie Neptune, Lucifer’s Key by Charles A. Cornell, due 2013

Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep.

In darkness there is death.

Several Terminal Policy readers got together to tell Raker jokes: – Raker CAN piss into the wind. – Raker donates a lot of blood to the Red Cross — just never his own.- Superman wears...

I tell everyone who asks me about writing…almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it’s that 290 or so pages in between that are tough!

I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head.” – Stephanie Carovella

Only God is the Giver and Master of Creativity and imagination because they are gifts that can only come from Him Alone!

Listen, we got two stiffs and a river of red in a villa in Herne Bay…