Category Archives: Jim’s Posts

Getting Away With Murder

Posted on March 26, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

James Hayman: It wasn’t really McCabe’s kind of place. Or Maggie’s either. A dreary little hangout on the edge of town somewhere in rural Georgia where a few hardcore drinkers started downing shots at about eight in the morning and … Continue reading →

Posted in Jim's Posts | Tagged crime writing, Darkness First, Down East Books, James Hayman, Legalized Murder, mystery writing, Open Carry, Stand Your Ground, The Chill of Night, The Cutting | 3 Comments

Share of Eyeballs.

Posted on March 11, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

James Hayman: Remember the old line by what once upon a time were called skirt-chasers, “So many women. So little time?” These days it seems to apply more to other forms of entertainment that it does to sex. “So many … Continue reading →

Posted in Jim's Posts | Tagged crime stories, crime writing, Darkness First, James Hayman, maine mysteries, Media, Reading, Share of Eyeballs, The Chill of Night, TV, writing | 1 Comment

Can a Writer Retire?

Posted on February 27, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Philip Roth, long one of my favorite writers, recently announced his retirement. In his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side there’s reportedly a post-it note stuck on his computer screen that says, “The struggle with writing is over.” But how … Continue reading →

Posted in Jim's Posts | Tagged crime writing, Darkness First, Harper Lee, James Hayman, Maine Crime Writers, maine mysteries, Mel Brooks, mystery writers, mystery writing, Philip Roth, retirement, The Chill of Night, The Cutting, writers | 4 Comments

A Week in the Sunshine

Posted on February 10, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

James Hayman: Those of you who read my last blog on this site, A Moving Experience, know that my wife Jeanne and I have just survived the rigors of moving from our house on Peaks Island to another on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Jim's Posts | Tagged Beach Reading, crime stories, crime writing, Darkness First, Florida, James Hayman, Kate Atkinson, Life After Life, The Chill of Night, The Cutting, Vacation | 3 Comments

A Moving Experience

Posted on January 23, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

James Hayman: Last week my wife Jeanne and I sold our house on Peaks Island and simultaneously bought another house in the Back Cove area of Portland. The closing on the Peaks house was at 11 AM on Tuesday. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Jim's Posts | Tagged crime stories, crime writing, Darkness First, James Hayman, Moving, Peak's Island, Portland, The Chill of Night, The Cutting | 15 Comments

The Problem With “Nice.”

Posted on December 23, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

James Hayman: At the risk of appearing Scrooge-like in this season of Merry, Happy and Ho-Ho-Ho, I’d like to add my two cents to a kerfuffle over book reviews that’s been brewing both in the print media and on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Jim's Posts | Tagged Bob Garfield, BuzzFeed, crime books, crime stories, Darkness First, Issac Fitzgerald, James Hayman, literary fiction, Maine Crime Writers, maine mysteries, Maureen Dowd, mystery writers, mystery writing, The Chill of Night, The Cutting | 7 Comments

My Interview on 207.

Posted on November 20, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

James Hayman: Rather than write my blog today I’m going to provide a link to my interview with Rob Caldwell on the WCSH6 talk show “207” in which I discuss the launch of my third thriller Darkness First as an … Continue reading →

Posted in Jim's Posts | Tagged 207, crime stories, crime writing, Darkness First, Eastport, ebook first, interview, James Hayman, Maine, Maine Crime Writers, maine mysteries, mysteries, mystery writers, Rob Caldwell, The Chill of Night, The Cutting | 1 Comment

Roxana Robinson’s Sparta: A Brilliantly Told Tale of the Costs of War.

Posted on October 14, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

James Hayman: I just finished reading Sparta, a novel by a writer named Roxana Robinson that initially attracted me because I’d been so impressed by her previous novel, Cost. Cost told the story of a mother’s struggle to save the … Continue reading →

Posted in Jim's Posts | Tagged crime stories, crime writing, Darkness First, Iraq, James Hayman, Maine Crime Writers, mystery writers, PTSD, Sparta, The Chill of Night, The Cutting, Veteran's Administration, war | 4 Comments

“Darkness First” Out Today

Posted on October 1, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

James Hayman: My third McCabe/Savage thriller, Darkness First comes out today, October 1st, as the lead title from Harper Collins brand new ebook-first digital imprint Witness/Impulse. As luck would have it, the introduction of Darkness First is being upstaged by … Continue reading →

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Firing Blind in Iowa

Posted on September 10, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

James Hayman: Imagine a blind cop or maybe a private eye whose sense of hearing or maybe smell is so acute he/she can use it to ferret it out a bad guy and make the arrest. It makes an appealing … Continue reading →