Randall Jarmon's Blog

I have been careful to make each of my paperback books available in a large-print version as well as in the standard 5×8 version. At first, I did this for my father, who then

For much of his career, Adam North was a hunted man. He carefully moved around the old USSR for decades, spying on the Soviets from deep within their vast empire. He was never caught,

  He is a scientist, secretly winning the world’s major lotteries. The Russian mob wants him dead

Dog Defends Author - I have a golden retriever named “Virgil.” He is a remarkably gentle dog with a perfect disposition. The rabbits that enter our backyard in Texas fear him (though he has never in his life managed to

The Suspense Novel’s 15-Page Advantage -   All those books you find at Amazon books – to include Amazon’s small ocean of Kindle ebooks — fall into categories called genres. Mostly these seem established by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). BISG

The Endangered Bookshelf - One of life’s small joys is, I think, wandering the shelves of a good independent bookstore. If you feel the same way, visit these bookshelves often. Carefully form memories of each visit. Many of

Explaining Lethal Technology with a Novel - One supposes terrorists might read novels. If they read mine, the deadly technology I describe will not help them much. There are three reasons why Randall Jarmon novels seem eminently safe

What ages should main characters be? - The main characters in my novels are sometimes older than one might expect

Naming Characters in My Novels - How do I name the characters in my stories? I rely on an intuitive, ill-defined process that somehow seems to work for me. Both names and code names get generated this way. My present post

DONE BY CHRISTMAS: A STORY OF REVENGE AND FAITH - Almost everyone had heard of Victor Taggert. He was imprisoned for secretly orchestrating at least 200 bloody, individual murders over many years. Almost nobody has heard of Marcus West. He labors in obscurity at