Walking early in St. Petersburg this morning, the horizon was an array of colors: gray-blue layered with rows of a pale coral ...

Some Harlan Ellison ebook editions were on sale yesterday from Open Road , which prompted a few messages between a friend and I about ...

We all get ties for Christmas. My cat, Oliver Littlechap, is no exception. 

I met screenwriter Mark MacNicol online recently, and he mentioned his work in progress. It's an intriguing film called Dreaded Light. ...

I like blockbusters as much as the next aging geek. I went to see Jason Bourne on Sunday because I knew it was going to be fun and frenet...

I've scratched just a bit of the surface of Stranger Things this weekend. I binge, but in doses. What I've watched so far in...

I have to say I'm a bit intrigued by the look of the robots in Leomark's July 15 release The Killer Robots! That's their exc...

I had a lot of fun doing a presentation this week called "Fear in the Shadows." I've been developing it and polishing a whi...

I watched the first episode of The Night Of a couple of weeks ago when it began streaming on HBO Now. I think  it rolls out on air tomorrow...

I haven't noticed a lot of people talking about CBS' BrainDead from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King, but I'...

If you're, say, my friend Chicago author Wayne Allen Sallee , or someone else living in the Chicago area, you might be interested ...

Remember Zack Ward who played Scut Farkas and one of the most memorable villains on Sliders among many other roles? He's direct...

Free today - my short story "Watched" which I wrote originally for a newspaper youth page. It's set in the universe of the...

Dark Hours , my new novella which follows a student journalist on her own descent into a personal labyrinth to confront a twisted player ...

My spry, youngest cat, Oliver Littlechap, has begun receiving subcutaneous fluids for elevated kidney values. He's at least 11 yea...

Had a great time last night with my wife, Christine, at Orlando's Dr. Phillips Center  ringing in the New Year via a concert featurin...

My wife, Christine, and I spent a few days in Charleston, S.C., recently, and a little of that time was devoted to exploring dark alleys ...

In the intro to  Thrillers: 100 Must Reads , Lee Child observes that we, humans,  have a way of re-telling tales in veiled new forms, har...

I finished the adaptation of "Locke and Key" while on a walk this morning. I got the free download from Audible a while back,...

A photo posted by Roland Mann (@therolandmann) on Oct 18, 2015 at 6:27am PDT Thanks to Roland Mann for a snapshot of me discussi...