Blog – Peter Colt

Easter Candy

By Peter Colt / April 15, 2025 /

I was in the local supermarket chain yesterday. I might have been humming “Lost in a Supermarket” by the Clash. I tend to think of that song or “Common People” by Pulp. I don’t know how many supermarket themed songs there are but those have to be the two best. I was doing the weekly…

Writers

By Peter Colt / April 6, 2025 /

I have published six books, my seventh will be out in September. It is funny to think that to be considered a success in this profession you have to sell about a thousand copies per book. Yep, that’s it. It doesn’t seem like a lot especially when you consider the really successful names in the…

Spring in New England

By Peter Colt / March 29, 2025 /

It’s been spring for a little over a week now. Spring is a magical time in Southern New England. For example, we’ve had a lot of rain, which is standard for early spring. We’ve had a few cold days and nights. A few sunny days that were almost t-shirt weather worthy. Even just today, it…

Left Coast Crime

By Peter Colt / March 19, 2025 /

I was in Denver for a convention last week. Not just any convention but Left Coast Crime, a crime fiction convention. In 2002 I had flown into Denver on my way to Fort Carson Colorado. I was on my way there not as a soldier but as a technical writer. I spent a few months…

I’m a foodie

By Peter Colt / March 3, 2025 /

If you haven’t figured it out by now I am a bit of a foodie. I like to cook and I like to eat good food. I grew eating food that was always a little bit different from what my friends were eating. My mother and grandparents were from Ukraine and the Slavic diet was…

It’s been busy

By Peter Colt / February 23, 2025 /

It’s been a busy week. I’ve got a book coming out in a few weeks. We’ve updated the website to reflect that. There’s a whole bunch of promotional stuff that goes along with it. I just finished the copy edits on the new first book in the new series and then there’s all the life…

Anticipation

By Peter Colt / February 8, 2025 /

It’s funny the things we look forward to. Tomorrow is Superbowl Sunday, I have a book coming out, and we are supposed to get a wikkid big snow storm for the first time in a few years. Most of America will be thinking about and looking forward to Superbowl and the Superbowl parties. I can’t…

Bender

By Peter Colt / January 29, 2025 /

In my house he was either referred to as uncle Steve or simply by his last name Bender. Though there are numerous Benders, Steve’s five children, his wife, and other relatives, we only meant him. Uncle Steve was the guy who the time to cook us gourmet meals or talk about literature or wine, subjects…

Colder than…

By Peter Colt / January 22, 2025 /

I am a husky, Slavic gentleman of a certain age. Not surprisingly I am not a fan of the summer months. The heat and humidity conspire against me, leaving me feeling like Superman when under the rays of the red sun or too close to Kryptonite. In fact the only good thing that I can…

Holiday not holiday

By Peter Colt / January 14, 2025 /

Ask anyone close to you and they will tell you that I am a bit of curmudgeon. I hate that Christmas music starts playing on November 1st, instead of after Thanksgiving. While it is a person’s right to put up Christmas decorations well before Christmas, it’s not for me. I have been known to put…