The Mike Robbins blog

The theme for the writing group this time was "Belonging". The others wrote some rather nice poems. I'm a lousy poet so I wrot...

I haven't posted fiction on this blog; I haven’t written many short pieces that would be suitable. But I have just completed a short sto...

Detective fiction is not dead. Two recent crime novels have been  bestsellers. And both deserve to be In a week or two, God willing, about...

Crime writing is fun, but don’t give up the day job...  A look at t wo vintage detective stories by men who didn’t When I was a child my p...

A change in my life has made me aware of time passing, of one’s former world slipping away, and of loss. A century ago, the First World War ...