SNYDERMANIA

Recently finished James Michener's Poland . I've been a huge Michener fan for a couple of decades. My  first Michener book was T...

I'm sitting at the computer enjoying a Fat Weasel Ale, listening to some extra smooth Miles Davis, and trying to make sense of season...

In case you're new to SNYDERMANIA, you can get your copy of Spirit Guide Bar, The Eight Fingered Criminal's Son, and the Stories ...

Life is funny. I left the teaching game at the end of the 2012-2013 school year. Seventeen months later, I'm back in the trenches, t...

Here's my pal, Richard Rios, reading his Thanksgiving story "A Rite of Passage." I read tale to my students on Thanksgiving ...

Arizona cockroaches, ants, and scorpions are breathing a little easier. My career as an exterminator is officially over. No more walking ...

Writer's block is like a shooting slump in basketball. The only way out of a slump is to shoot your way out, or write your way out...

My life as a bug man/writer/teacher has been quite pretty hectic as of late.  The extermination biz was exceptionally busy this week. I...

Here's Lyle Tucker's latest creation for the illustrated version of The Eight-Fingered Criminal's Son. Tucker does an outsta...

An illustrated version of THE EIGHT-FINGERED CRIMINAL'S SON is in the works. I've teamed up with a brilliant illustrator by the ...

  "Para Los Tres Grandes"  is a tribute to three of Mexico's greatest artists and muralists, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro ...

This is the cover for Stories from the Spirit Guide Bar , an audio collection of seven stories. The stories are from The-Eight Fing...

I give you the remastered version.

I'm excited to share this sneak peek-listen of  Stories from the Spirit Guide Bar , a Gidak Digital audio production of stories from The...

I recently spent an afternoon with Mrs. Halberg's junior English class. These guys were explosively inspirational. The class had been...