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, Science Fiction, TV

The Case For DISCOVERY

By Greg Hatcher December 15, 2017 September 28, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"14

A lot of old-school Trek fans seem to really, really hate Star Trek Discovery. As it happens, I’m an old-school Trek fan myself and I like it better than any of the new Trek shows in the last twenty-some years. Here’s why.

Greg Hatcher, Movies

Hammer Time!

By Greg Hatcher December 9, 2017 December 11, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"12

A Hammer horror superfan is getting the band back together.

Greg Hatcher

15 Cool Things For You to Click On!!

By Greg Hatcher December 3, 2017 December 17, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"14

What? All the other kids are doing it. I am caving to peer pressure.

Greg Hatcher

The Audition, Part 2

By Greg Hatcher November 19, 2017 February 26, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"5

Concluding the harrowing tale of how Julie met my family for the first time.

Greg Hatcher

The Audition, Part 1

By Greg Hatcher November 12, 2017 August 8, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"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.

Greg Hatcher

A Book Forty Years in the Making

By Greg Hatcher November 8, 2017 November 8, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"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.

Greg Hatcher

Backroads Bookscouting: North on Route 507

By Greg Hatcher October 29, 2017 October 29, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"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.