Author: Greg Hatcher

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.

Greg Hatcher, Mystery and Mayhem

The Defective Detectives

By Greg Hatcher February 13, 2017 February 14, 2017 9

Yes, this really is a genre…. though today we’d probably call it special-needs detectives.

Greg Hatcher

Diversionary Tactics

By Greg Hatcher February 7, 2017 February 7, 2017 10

When real life becomes just too oppressive, you look for diversions. Here are a few that worked for me. And a couple that didn’t.

Greg Hatcher, Movies

Being THAT Guy

By Greg Hatcher February 1, 2017 February 4, 2017 30

We’ve all done it. We take turns being That Guy. Fans, pros, even Peter Weller.

Greg Hatcher, Science Fiction

A Timeless Plea

By Greg Hatcher January 24, 2017 February 19, 2017 13

Your regularly scheduled column is being pre-empted so I can boost the signal on this IMPORTANT matter.

Greg Hatcher, Mystery and Mayhem

Alfred Hitchcock, Children’s Author

By Greg Hatcher January 17, 2017 February 4, 2017 9

We all know Alfred Hitchcock was a famous movie director. But most people have forgotten he was once a literary brand name as well.

Greg Hatcher, Review

Jungle Lords

By Greg Hatcher January 13, 2017 February 4, 2017 14

You know, stories about guys like Tarzan, the Phantom… and the time Tarzan MET the Phantom.

Greg Hatcher, Rummaging & Ruminating

My Year in Junk

By Greg Hatcher January 3, 2017 February 4, 2017 9

This is the time when everyone publishes their year-end review or their best of the year or whatever column. There’s always the entertainment round-up, best new this, best new that.

Truthfully I’m a bad blogger when it comes to this sort of thing, because rarely, if ever, do we ever get anything NEW. Julie and I are low-income; we live on a very tight budget and he entertainment budget is next to nothing so we are always buying discount or used. This is the Junk Shop, after all, and as it turned out 2016 was kind of a cool year for us turning up oddball bits of this and that on the cheap. These are just a few of the things I came across this last year that I thought were great fun, and not very expensive at all. Some of it’s even free.