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Greg has been writing for one outlet or another since 1992. He was a contributing editor at WITH magazine for over a decade and during that time was a three-time winner of the Higher Goals Award for children's writing; once for fiction and twice for non-fiction. Following that, he did a weekly column for Comic Book Resources as one of the rotating features on the Comics Should Be Good! blog for eleven years, before moving on to this current gig at Atomic Junk Shop. He also teaches writing in the Young Authors classes offered as part of the YMCA's Afterschool Arts Program in west Seattle, for students in the 6th through the 12th grade. A fan of pulp fiction ever since he discovered the Doc Savage paperback reprints from Bantam Books in the 1970s, he has contributed a number of action-adventure stories to various 'new pulp' anthologies in recent years. Likewise a lifelong mystery fan, he has also written Nero Wolfe pastiches for the Wolfe Pack Gazette and several Sherlock Holmes adventures for the Airship 27 CONSULTING DETECTIVE series. He lives in Burien, Washington, with his wife Julie, their cat Magdalene, and ten thousand books and comics.
The Audition, Part 1
Greg Hatcher

The Audition, Part 1

By Greg Hatcher November 12, 2017 August 8, 2019 10

Going through a bunch of old stuff for last week’s column, I found this story. Thought I’d share it here. It originally saw print in a magazine called CARAVAN about fourteen years ago.

So, presented once again. From the archives, a tale of terror… the weekend when Julie met my mother.

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A Book Forty Years in the Making
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A Book Forty Years in the Making

By Greg Hatcher November 8, 2017 November 8, 2017 18

So I have a novel coming out this week that I spent the last few months writing. But in another way, it’s taken forty years to really FINISH. Here’s how it happened.

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Backroads Bookscouting: North on Route 507
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Backroads Bookscouting: North on Route 507

By Greg Hatcher October 29, 2017 October 29, 2017 12

Wrapping up the bookscouting road trip, including one of the more surprising finds we’ve run across in all our years of doing this.

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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #6: Sickbed, with Links
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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #6: Sickbed, with Links

By Greg Hatcher October 21, 2017 October 29, 2017 2

The promised bookscouting column is coming, but in the meantime, you might enjoy these items of interest.

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Backroads Bookscouting: Old Portland
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Backroads Bookscouting: Old Portland

By Greg Hatcher October 8, 2017 January 29, 2018 7

ROAD TRIP! On the thinnest of business excuses, Julie and I inflated a brief meeting into three days of goofing off.

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Rebirth Pains
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Rebirth Pains

By Greg Hatcher October 1, 2017 October 1, 2017 32

Every time DC comics reinvents itself, I’m hoping it’ll be one of the GOOD ones. Like Superman and Batman in 1971, or Swamp Thing and the Titans in the 1980s, or Starman and the JLA in the 1990s. So what about the latest run at it, REBIRTH?

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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #5: Randomized
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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #5: Randomized

By Greg Hatcher September 17, 2017 September 17, 2017 8

A little of this, a little of that. Celebrity deaths, demon hounds, and amazingly, some good news in the midst of it all.

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