Daily Archives: March 3, 2010

RIP Robert B. Parker

It’s been a fact since January, but I only recently found out about the death of mystery novelist Robert B. Parker. Parker was a huge influence on my back in the late 1980s when I was in college and trying my hand at mystery novels; his Spenser series was hot at the time and I …

March 3, 2010 – 12:18 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Treading water

Even though I’ve had mostly legitimate setbacks on my novel project, I’m really starting to feel like I’m treading water and, to mix metaphors, in need of some roadside assistance to get going again. I started this current novel over 18 months ago, when I first learned my mother was stage four in her cancer …

March 3, 2010 – 12:08 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)