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

Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #9: Just Stuff

By Greg Hatcher September 15, 2018 September 16, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"9

Sometimes there just isn’t a column’s worth of things to say about anything. Sometimes there’s just a paragraph or two. So here are several of those, hooked together to make a column.

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Professional Fan Fiction

By Greg Hatcher September 9, 2018 September 9, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"11

Sometimes even working professionals just need to get their fanboy on.

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Itching and Scratching

By Greg Hatcher September 2, 2018 September 3, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"7

It’s like an itch you can’t scratch. Chances are, scratching it isn’t really worth it, but it nags at you anyway. I’m talking about books or movies or TV shows that you start, but for whatever reason, you can’t finish.

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Our Summer Volunteer Project

By Greg Hatcher August 19, 2018 August 19, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"5

You might say the Force is with us.

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Another Meme Thing: Two Actors

By Greg Hatcher August 12, 2018 August 12, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"12

This is just a thing people have been tagging me with, and even though they always say “You don’t have to comment,” well, I am a writer; if I can’t comment, what’s the point? After my answers ballooned up to column-size I decided to make it a column.

Books, Greg Hatcher

Backroads Bookscouting: Twenty-Four Hours on the Peninsula

By Greg Hatcher July 29, 2018 October 27, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"9

Although we were forced to spend most of our allotted vacation budget on the car, we ALSO were forced — sort of– to take a fun overnight trip around the Olympic Peninsula. And we found some cool stuff along the way.

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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #8: Bus Books

By Greg Hatcher July 22, 2018 July 23, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"6

With the car out of commission for a week, I got a chance to catch up on some reading during my lengthy bus commute.