So, what is being said about Behind the Carbon Curtain in Wyoming, the most politically conservative state in the country?  In the last few months, I’ve spoken—and listen...

People have been enjoying the notion of the micro-mystery that I introduced in my last blog posting, so I’m announcing a contest for anyone to email their six-word mysteries to me (lockwood@uwyo.edu).  A panel of disting...

        The whole thing started with Ernest Hemingway, the master of spare, telegraphic writing.  As the story goes, Hemingway was having lunch with friends and bet those gathered that he could write an entire story in six words.  Once the money was wagered, he wrote,...

          It’s been a month since the release of Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship and Free Speech—and there’s been virtually no hostile response or uncivil discourse.  The folks with power and...

          In Poisoned Justice, I used a murder mystery to walk the line between vengeance and justice—a most difficult philosophical problem.  One can read the book without worrying too much about w...

In Behind the Carbon Curtain, The Energy Industry, Political Censorship and Free Speech. I suggest actions that people can take in response to efforts by those in power to silence dissent.  These responses to censorship...

          I wrote Behind the Carbon Curtain, The Energy Industry, Political Censorship and Free Speech over the course of 5 years—and it will be released in April (http://www.unmpr...

          With Valentine’s Day around the corner, you might not be associating romantic love with crime noir.  A reader of POISONED JUSTICE wrote to me saying that Riley—the (...

           Talk about darkly fortuitous timing!  With the furor over censorship these days, readers should flock to my forthcoming book, Behind the Carbon Curtain:...

A reader wrote to me about Poisoned Justice—and he wasn’t entirely happy: “I’ve never been a fan of hard-boiled detectives… I need to like somebody in the story [and] Riley just wasn’t a guy I wanted to spend...