WHATEVER IT TAKES Pre-release!

For early readers and reviewers  

Get it now!  I’d like to know what you think of the sixth novel in the Dale Hunter Thriller Series released this week for early readers and reviews.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

Trust nobody

In WHATEVER IT TAKES, Dale Hunter is shocked to discover that his Read More

A personal note

From the author

 I recently celebrated my 80th year and I’m now planning ahead for the next decade. That may sound hopelessly optimistic or foolishly ambitious, but I’ve successfully navigated through the past twenty-five years between semi-retired and self-unemployed, with occasional bursts of energy and enthusiasm...

Are we Canadian enough yet?

Or anti-American now

I had a recent discussion with some of my fellow Canadian writers recently on the relevance of social commentary in works of fiction. It’s an old dilemma – how to speak out on social issues without ruining the pleasure of reading a good book. Writers from Charles Dickens to Margaret...

Like it or not

I was strumming my guitar staring at a blank page under the title above,  thinking about wanting to be a rock star (or a hockey hero) when I was a boy (a very long time ago), and realizing that we’re all in the entertainment...

Go Team Canada!

Support Canadian writers at Crime Writers of Canada

You may already know me as Delvin Chatterson, author. I’m now introducing myself as the Chief Cheerleader and Vice-Chair for Crime Writers of Canada, and I’m asking you to join me in supporting the organisation to help develop and promote Canadian crime writing. Read More

Compare and contrast

Me and Michael Connelly

BAD BOYS versus THE DROP

It may be terribly arrogant and presumptuous of me to compare my  writing to the master of crime thrillers, Michael Connelly, but I'm suggesting it's instructive for you and for me.

Compare and Contrast

I learned a...

Looking back

And planning ahead

My first decade as a fiction writer  

I published my first two books in 2014 – business advice for entrepreneurs – after decades of writing professionally as a consultant, lecturer, and business executive. I had an interest in becoming a writer back in high school, but was thrown out of journalism...

My new book and new look!

Where did that come from?

Well, ... now that you ask, here's the story. My latest book is a collection of short stories inspired by the early pulp fiction detective novels of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Robert B. Parker and by David Baldacci’s Archer Series. It's been fun to write for...