Author: Greg Hatcher

Prior to his untimely passing in October of 2021, Greg Hatcher was a longtime columnist and author and the primary founder of Atomic Junk Shop; all of the other founding contributors were invited by him. His Author's bio at the time of his death follows. 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

My White Whale… A New Year’s Resolution

By Greg Hatcher December 29, 2019 December 29, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"11

The same one I make every year, honestly. But I thought if I shared it publicly maybe I could shame myself into actually keeping it.

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So This Is Christmas….

By Greg Hatcher December 25, 2019 December 26, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"13

Lazing around on Christmas morning… again.

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Golden Voyages

By Greg Hatcher December 15, 2019 December 20, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"15

I have a new book project I’m very excited about. It’s another one I’ve kind of been training for my entire life.

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Black Blades and Other Sorcerous Things

By Greg Hatcher November 30, 2019 December 8, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"11

Because you demanded it! (Well, a dozen of you or so did, anyway.)

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Help! What Should I Read Next? (A Reader Poll)

By Greg Hatcher November 24, 2019 November 24, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"17

The Shelf of Shame is out of control. I have all these cool new books to read that I planned to write about and, well, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. I can’t decide.

Then it dawned on me– YOU can decide.

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Take Five Minutes…

By Greg Hatcher November 17, 2019 November 17, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"3

…and just enjoy this.

Books, Greg Hatcher, The Schoolteacher Diaries

Finding The On-Ramp, Juvenile Edition

By Greg Hatcher November 12, 2019 November 12, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"13

A social-media group I belong to had one of its members pose a question that provoked a cascade of memories and suggestions, and I finally decided to put them all …