Howard Shrier's Blog

Chapter 15 of Lostport is now on Wattpad. If you've been following the story, here's where Ben McBride and his fellow protected witnesses head down the crooked path that Sheriff Earl Keene has forced upon them. Click on the link below -- it's fun and it's free!

http://www.wattpad.com/70347949-lostp...

How did Ben McBride wind up in witness protection? Is he the criminal his sheet claims him to be? Or a Tampa cop who trusted the wrong people and lost everything in a deadly drug raid?

Find out in Chapter 14 of Lostport, now up on Wattpad.

http://www.wattpad.com/45056111-lostp...

The corrupt sheriff of Huron County, Earl Keene, tells six men in witness protection they now work for him.

In chapter 12 of Lostport, now up on Wattpad, Ben McBride finally meets the man who is pulling everyone's strings: Earl Keene, Sheriff of Huron County.

http://www.wattpad.com/45055394-lostp...

I'm teaching a five-day intensive mystery writing workshop at University of Toronto July 7-11. It's a great way to launch or further develop your manuscript.

http://2learn.utoronto.ca/uoft/search...

It`s Saturday night in Lostport and no one`s gonna get much sleep. Find out why in Chapter 11 on Wattpad.

http://tinyurl.com/mhlyls4

I have posted a new chapter of Lostport on Wattpad. It's free, of course, so why not take a few moments to check it out from the beginning? What else are you going to do on a beautiful sunny day? Go outside?

http://www.wattpad.com/45055259-lostp...

To many readers of crime fiction, Ross Macdonald was one of the best ever. His Lew Archer series was an inspiration to me and many of the crime writers I know, including Linwood Barclay, John Connolly and many others.

I looked him up in California in 1980, when I was 23 and dreaming of becoming a crime writer. Hoping, in fact, to become his protege. It was a bittersweet experience as you can read in this memoir, False Lead. I wrote it in 1983 after he died and recently posted it on Wattpad for Memoir Month.

http://www.wattpad.com/story/16486300...

I've been posting chapters of my standalone thriller Lostport on Wattpad. Chapter 9 introduces Bobby Patton: ex-convict, protected witness and student of military strategy -- which is going to serve him well in corrupt Huron County.

http://www.wattpad.com/45055161-lostp...