Let's get to what seems to be the important question, first: No, I don't know why people are hoarding toilet paper. It's not that kind of virus. There's so much misinformation about the coronavirus, and

Okay, so I already revealed the cover to More Slightly Off the Mark once, but this time we really, really mean it. We thought the original was a little imbalanced, so Emily added a newspaper nameplate,

I can't tell you what I got my wife for our eighth wedding anniversary, because it hasn't arrived yet, and she sometimes reads my blog. And by "it hasn't arrived yet" I mean as I write this our

Here's the interesting history of the "Riviera of the Middle West": For several years I got Indiana Beach tickets through my work, and would take my kids, and sometimes their friends, there.

I have a Mardi Gras themed book wallpaper! No, I’m not going to Mardi Gras, and I don’t celebrate it. Why do you ask? Guess I’ll just use it to shout out our website.

I wanted to get away from all the anger and destruction going on in the world today, so I went looking for some light, fun reading. I chose World War 1. Nobody ever claimed I make all the best choices.

I've been kidding myself with the name of one of my novel manuscripts. It's not that I was in love with the title: I was more in love with the possibilities the title represented. Many readers are familiar

I was going to write a loving Valentine's Day salute to my wife, otherwise known as sucking up. But I got sick, also known as every freaking holiday and anniversary, so instead I stole a chose some nice

Yes, I posted about My Funny Valentine last week, but that was before I found out the e-book version will be free from now until February 14th. That's a heck of a buy, by which I mean you don't have to

Orson Bean, Robert Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Mary Higgens Clark, Freddie Silverman, Kobe Bryant, Jim Lehrer, Terry Jones, Edd Byrnes, Buck Henry, Gene Reynolds ... pauses to catch a breath ... and we're only

Everybody complains about the weather forecasts, but nobody wants to get a meteorology degree and see if they can do it better. It's an axiom. I assume. I'm not sure, let me check ... yep, that's what

I was going to lay off the shameless self-promotion this week, but then I remembered ... this. Coming off the big SportsBowl weekend, it takes many men a few days to recover their senses and start thinking

This was lost in my blog drafts--it was actually written several months ago, then forgotten! It's interesting to me, because in it I speculate on a novel project I'd just started on--but in the real timeline,

This may seem an odd time of the year for this, but I've been working on a novel set at a horse campground in late April, so to me it fits right in. In conjunction with it appearing Monday on the

I wrote awhile back that one of my short stories, "Grocery Purgatory", was bought and would be published soon. Sadly, the publisher suffered a death in the family, and the story was put, shall

I've already worked into my novel-in-progress three atrocious puns, three references to The Wizard of Oz, two more to Harry Potter, two horses, and ... well, just one dog, but he's an unusually smart dog.

I noticed recently that if I went to Amazon.com and searched for "Mark R. Hunter", I did not come up first. In the Kindle store, the first six hits didn't have "Mark R. Hunter" attached

Yes, yes, I know--how can we come up with anything good about being invaded by nasty little sickness bugs? Well, it's like this: Everyone around here is getting sick lately, with some respiratory gunk

You may have heard of Outlander, a little tale of time travel and kilts that spawned, oh, several dozen sequels, and a TV series that's headed into its sixth season. Being a fan of time travel stories,

Oh, yeah, New Years ... we're doing that again this year. And after a century of waiting, we'll be back into the Roaring Twenties, so there's that. The Teen years? As with the teen years of people, they