SNYDERMANIA

The Book Frog is my main book store. These guys have supported my writing since I first published CRIMINAL'S SON in 2011.

My editor is going over my collection of teacher stories. My publisher says the book will release in October. I gotta admit, it feels p...

Imagine facing this guy down with your arm around his girlfriend.  You can read the story of my heroic encounter with Dave Cruz in my...

  T HE EIGHT-FINGERED CRIMINAL'S SON FLASH READ

Can't tell you how excited I am to be collaborating with the insanely talented Lyle Tucker. Lyle is currently illustrating     THE EI...

Growing up in Hawthorne California, the Manhattan Beach Pier was just a twenty minute bus ride away.  I spent countless summer days exper...

Do you remember when dopey kids delivered newspapers. Long time ago, I know. Guess it's been a long time since people actually read n...

I met General Grant in the can at the Spirit Guide Bar. Really. I'm not kidding around. Here is my shameless link to the audio ve...

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...