Dec 31, 2013 | Past Notes, Reviews
What a New Year’s gift! I just received the following note from bestselling author Karen Maitland (author of The Owl Killers & Company of Liars). If you do need a quote from me for readers, which I am sure you don’t given the excellent endorsements you already...
Dec 31, 2013 | Past Notes
Great Review from Pacific Northwest book blog Rose City Reader for my new novel SINFUL FOLK. In the brutal winter of 1377, a group of English peasants set out from their village on a risky trek to London to beg the king for justice. Five village children had died in a...
Dec 30, 2013 | Past Notes, Reviews
What a New Year’s gift! I just received the following note from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize Winner William Dietrich. “ ‘Sinful Folk’ is a beautiful and bleak tale – a murder mystery and a journey of personal revelation – of English commoners...
Jun 19, 2013 | On Books, Past Notes, Reviews
Excited to see this review of my new novel Coeur d’Alene Waters. What is it about the Pacific Northwest that leads some into dark worlds of violence and despair? Had one-time north Idaho journalist Ned Hayes made this tantalizing question the centerpiece of his...
Jan 19, 2013 | On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
Paradise Lost: A Contemporary Adaptation Ned Hayes Book I lines 1-75 Calling the Angel of Song Let’s agree to tell the truth, for once, about that first time: the deadly fruit They ate that night, the lethal lust that spreads still through the universe, An...
May 17, 2012 | On Technology, Past Notes, Post-Human Future
I’ve had some fun recently watching and reading about the Terminator series. It’s not a bad attempt to bring a large SF franchise into the more constrained world of TV, and there’sconsiderable fan momentum If you were creating an artificial lifeform...
