Clay Wolfe Trap News Today

In my Clay Wolfe book, Mouse Trap, I traveled down the rabbit hole into the world of genome editing, which some consider Wonderland. On the one hand, it is a place of wildly creative science trying to banish disease and disorder. On the other hand, it is a process that could lead to the demolition…

Pirate Trap arrives Wednesday. March 27th. Much like a C-section, the birth of my book has been predetermined. A year ago, it was just an idea trickling around in my being, but it is about to become a reality. A living, breathing, entity of setting, plot, characters, twists, and turns. And just like that, I…

Argh, matey. Walk the plank. Dead men tell no tales. Hoist the Jolly Roger. Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest, yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum. Shiver me timbers. Crack on! The world has always had a fascination with pirates. What is the hook that makes just about everybody from young to…

Dixey (or Dixie) Bull is generally considered the first pirate in Maine. As these things so often go, even if he dreamed of being a pirate when he was a kid, living the life of a buccaneer of the seas was not his first intention. But, given his moniker, perhaps becoming a corsair was merely…

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…

What is Thanksgiving? The history dates to a feast shared between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people in 1621. As history is merely an interpretation of the past, the exact dates and how it all went down are all a bit vague. The spirit in which it is celebrated revolves around the first successful harvest…

Brunswick-based mystery writer Matt Cost will be the featured author at The Sounding Board on Thursday, Nov. 9 at Merry Barn Writers’ Retreat. The Sounding Board is a new monthly forum for Midcoast writers of all abilities to share brief pieces,...

There are so many formats of reading in the current world. I am presently reading Robbed Blind by Gerry Boyle, listening to Win by Harlan Coben on audiobook, and watching Longmire on Netflix. Does this count as reading three books at the same time? You can probably guess from this list that mystery/thriller is my…

Auburn Public Library

It is vitally important to flesh out the characters in a novel. They must leap from the pages vivaciously like real living beings. And nobody is more important than that of the protagonist of the story. Nothing will kill a book quicker than a Flat Stanley character with no depth—physically, emotionally, or mentally. Langdon, Clay,…